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 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. View67. A manifesto for families of prisoners in the north east
This manifesto is the result of a Nepacs Visitors' Voice event where families of prisoners that are currently visiting north east prisons discussed how the government and prison service can change services for prison visitors for the better. The manifesto contains 16 action points for the government that the families felt would improve prison visits for children and families and help to maintain family ties during a sentence. Please download the manifesto below.
68. Barnardo's i-HOP Quality Statements and Toolkit
The Barnardo's i-HOP Quality Statements and Toolkit is a helpful resource for all professionals in universal, targeted, specialist and criminal justice services to assess and develop their practice with children of offenders. Produced by Research in Practice, the Toolkit was informed by research, policy and practice as well as practitioners and children and young people who have had a loved one involved in the Criminal Justice System. The Toolkit is structured by 8 Quality...
69. Supporting children and families affected by a family member's offending - A Practitioner's Guide
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...
70. 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...
71. Practice Model from Wolverhampton CAPI Steering Group
Practice Model from Wolverhampton CAPI Steering Group. In January 2016 Barnardo’s i-hop service delivered a Children Affected by Parental Imprisonment (CAPI) conference in Wolverhampton inviting delegates from a wide range of services from Wolverhampton and the surrounding West Midlands area. Part of this event were a series of consultation workshops determining what support, if any, was given to children affected by parental imprisonment by professionals and also what the...
72. 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...
