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. View109. Barnardo's NICCO: Assisting professionals who work with young offenders' children and families
This document contains a poster and two page briefing about how professionals can support the children and families of young offenders. Young people with convictions are far more likely than young people without to have children. It is essential, therefore, for professionals to recognise the negative impact parental offending can have on these children e.g. stigma, financial difficulties, mental health issues, and the ways in which their needs can be met. The poster and briefing include...
110. Recognising Quality: An Evaluation Toolkit for Prison Visitors' Centres
Recognising Quality is a guide to running a prison visitor centre to a high standard and achieving good results for visitors. It contains quality standards to assist in systematically looking at the service provided, determining where improvements need to be made, and help with planning and allocating resources.The guide also includes detailed tools, resources and guidelines for assessing against the quality standards, collating evidence about the visitor centre's work, and demonstrating...
111. Barnardo's NICCO: Assisting Community Rehabilitation Companies and the National Probation Service to support offenders' children
This document contains a poster and two page briefing about children and families affected by parental offending and how NICCO can assist Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) and the National Probation Service (NPS) professionals to support them. The briefing summarises some of the key outcomes for these families, and highlights the importance of CRC and NPS professionals considering children and families in their supervision of offenders. CRC and NPS professionals supervise a range...
112. Quality services: Ticking all the boxes
This is a short guide for professionals from APOF around evidence and quality when working with offenders' children and families. It introduces the need for and tensions around evaluating services which work with this group. It suggests different recognised approaches to measuring the impact that services have (such as the four pillars approach) and stresses the importance of measuring against soft targets as well as for key outcomes. There are some examples of measurement tools as well...
113. BBC Radio 4 Law in Action - Mothers Behind Bars
A podcast exploring the issues around the imprisonment of mothers and whether fewer custodial sentences should be given to women who are primary carers. A mother and daughter tell Joshua Rozenberg what it's like when childhood is disrupted by a mother's imprisonment. Also featuring Juliet Lyon of the Prison Reform Trust and Andrea Albutt, the new president of the Prison Governors Association. Listen to Mothers Behind Bars below:
114. Rebalancing the scales: Child rights when sentencing parents
This video from Children of Prisoners Europe explains the negative impact of parental imprisonment on children and sets out some of the key UNCRC rights triggered by a parent's trial. The video reinforces the need for sentencing decisions to be made in the best interests of the child and sets out some practical advice on how to protect children when sentencing parents, namely: to consider non-custodial sentences where appropriate; otherwise, to sentence to prisons close to the family...
