The Barnardo's Practitioner's Guide is a comprehensive and practical resource aimed at all professionals who have direct contact with children and families, including Social Workers, teachers, pastoral staff, early years practitioners, health visitors, nurses, resettlement and prison-based family engagement workers, and more.
The Guide refers to key research and theory in order to highlight the impact of offending on the whole family. With a visual and practical combination of tools, diagrams, practice tips and substantial resource lists, it then equips practitioners to provide effective community-based responses, from assessment and support planning onwards. Drawing on Barnardo's extensive experience working with offenders' families as well as the Barnardo's NICCO service's expertise supporting professionals to work with offenders' children, the Guide is built on four essential practice foundations:
- 1. Children's Rights
- 2. Understanding the stages of the Criminal Justice System
- 3. Multi-agency Working
- 4. Safeguarding
Key issues covered include: telling the children about family member offending, organising prison visits, answering parents' and children's frequently asked questions, assessing offenders' families' needs and including them in support plans, exploring feelings with children and providing age-appropriate information, managing children's behaviour and supporting them to cope with change, keeping in touch, and much more. The Appendices of the Guide are packed with resource lists and tools for direct work with children, and the contents page in the interactive digital copy includes hyperlinks to make navigating the resource more convenient for professionals.
Download the Barnardo's Practitioner's Guide for free below.
