The NICCO Directory of Resources provides details of the huge number of tools, activities, practice models and guidance that have been developed by agencies to support offenders and their children and families.
Whether you are working directly with children, supporting offenders to maintain parental contact, helping a parent to prepare their child for a prison visit or simply want to develop your own understanding of the criminal justice system, this directory provides you with a range of resources to support and inform your work.
To support working with Children
Find activities, books, films, sound bites and worksheets to support your work with children and young people. ViewOffenders and Families
Find information, books, tools, activities and programmes to support your work with offenders and their partners or family members. ViewTo support Professional's Practice
Find delivery models, case studies, local and national policies and guidlines, practice guides, briefings and resources for professional learning and development. View121. Reducing Reoffending Children and Families Pathway
In 2004, the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) set out seven pathways in their National Reducing Re-offending Action Plan to provide a framework for working with offenders and providing services in relation to reducing reoffending. One of these pathways was Children and Families, along with Accommodation, Education, Training and Employment, Health, Drugs and Alcohol, Finance, Benefit and Debt, and Attitudes, Thinking and Behaviour. The Children and Families pathway recognises the...
122. Reversible Writing
Families Outside has produced a short video using the words of young people with a parent in prison. Following some research on the role of schools in supporting families affected by imprisonment, Families Outside's Child and Family Support Manager was struck by how often children whose parents are in prison wanted to say to their teachers, 'Don't assume I'm going to end up in prison, too.' Using the words of young people, this video asks all of us to turn around how we...
123. Social Care TV: Children of prisoners
These three videos consider the difficulties that children and families can face at various points of the offender journey; arrest, custody and release. They cover both the emotional and practical impacts, and include parents (both those who have been in prison and those outside) talking about their experiences, and professionals discussing some of the approaches to working with families. Each video sums up the key messages for practice emerging from the films, and considers what social care...
124. Someone in my family has sexually abused children
This publication by Action for Prisoners' Families (now Action for Prisoners' and Offenders' Families, part of Family Lives) aims to support children with a family member who has sexually abused children. It is not intended for children to read unsupported, but rather for an appropriate adult (perhaps a parent/family member or professional) to read it with them. Download a copy of the leaflet below:
125. Someone should just have asked me what was wrong
Scottish organisation Families Outside have produced this interactive e-booklet full of guidance for schools in supporting children impacted by imprisonment. Although written for a Scottish audience, most of the resource is useful to practitoners from England, Wales and Northern Ireland also. The document is split up in into 6 main chapters; raising awareness and understanding needs, reaching out to children and families, supporting children and young people, maintaining contact with a...
126. Somerset County Council: Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
Somerset County Council have recognised children of prisoners as a vulnerable group in their Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) for 2016. JSNAs are a statutory responsibility for all local government Health & Wellbeing Boards, bringing together information on regional patterns of health and social need in order to inform strategic priorities. The 'Somerset: Our County' report examines the needs of children and young people in Somerset with the aim of informing service...
