Directory of Resources

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...

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...

This guidance by Somerset Safeguarding Children Board is for professionals working with children and families to provide Early Help and targeted and specialist support. It outlines thresholds for assessments and services in order to assit professional judgement around the provision of effective support. Parental imprisonment is included in the guidance as a potential indicator for need of Level 2 (Additional), Level 3 (Complex) and Level 4 (Acute) support. Level 2 support might include an...

This is the second issue of Somerset Safeguarding Children Board's learning bulletin, "Things You Should Know", which highlights learning related to the safeguarding of offenders' children. The bulletin summarises a serious incident review of a case where a child was abused by their offender parent along with the resulting multi-agency safeguarding recommendations. It then considers findings of the Audit Subgroups in relation to eight cases of multi-agency work with children...

This booklet outlines how South Gloucestershire council will support children who are looked after by relatives or family friends in the absence of their parents. It also summarises the law in this area. Despite there only being two brief mentions of children with parents in prison within the statutory guidance for local authorities, this document is worth noting as an example of a local authority who specifically recognise children with imprisoned parents. There is also a list of support...

These reports summarise key developments in England - positive as well as negative - in relation to the UN's 118 recommendations for improving children's human rights. The reports examine significant developments in law and policy and official data relating to children's well-being, as well as covering relevant research and consultations with young people. The 2013 report takes each of the UN's recommendations, and assesses whether improvement, deterioration or no change has...