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.
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Find delivery models, case studies, local and national policies and guidlines, practice guides, briefings and resources for professional learning and development. View55. Barnsley Safeguarding Children Board- Guidelines for working with children who have a family member in prison
This guidance, primarily aimed at education professionals but accessible to multiagency professionals, works in line with Every Child Matters and the 2004 Children's Act. It aims to raise awareness of the impact of family imprisonment on children and looks at how to meet their needs. The 13 page document includes sections which cover: information sharing and confidentiality, school recording, children's ability to confide in someone, who to inform (working within a need to know...
56. Practice Model: Families Outside facilitating contact between imprisoned fathers and their child's school
Families Outside have developed a project which supports fathers in prison to be more closely involved in their children's education. The project means that dads receive reports and updates directly from the school about their child's school progress and allows Families Outside to help teachers support families. The project has a very clear procedure to ensure that all parties (school, prison, child, parents/carers in the community, father in prison) are involved in and informed...
Click here57. Practice Model: Thinking Fathers parenting programme in Bradford
West Yorkshire Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) and Barnardo's work together in Bradford to provide parenting programmes to fathers on community orders or supervision following a custodial sentence. Background Barnardo's Parenting Team were commissioned to deliver a parenting group to fathers on community orders or supervision within the West Yorkshire CRC. This followed the success of an initial pilot and took place over 8 weeks in spring 2015. Offender Managers identified a...
58. Wiltshire Neglect Stratgey
Wiltshire County Council's Neglect Strategy - Preventing, reducing and tackling the effects of neglect on children now includes having a parent in prison as a key child risk factor which increases the likelihood of neglect. The strategy sets out the role of Early Help in comabtting neglect, with clear aims and objectives listed.
59. Children of Prisoners: A guide for community health professionals
This comprehensive Barnardo's i-HOP guide is a resource for all community health professionals including midwives, health visitors, school nurses and many more. It aims to inform and help develop their work with the children and families of offenders. It includes an introduction to children affected by parental imprisonment including who they are, the general impact of parental imprisonment and on under fives, pregnant women in prison and how children experience the criminal justice...
60. Somerset LSCB: Effective Support for Children & Families in Somerset Guidance
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...
