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. View43. Working Together to Safeguard Children: A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children
This guidance sets out legislative requirements and expectations on a range of services to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, stating that everyone who comes into contact with children has a role to play in safeguarding. The guidance highlights the statutory responsibilities of Local Authorities to undertake needs assessments for individual children. On page 18 it is suggested that the process for assessment, in regard to children in need (under section 17 of the Children Act...
44. Transforming Rehabilitation - a revolution in the way we manage offenders
This rehabilitation programme, initiated by the Ministry of Justice, looks to transform the way offenders are managed in the community in order to reduce reoffending. The reforms include statutory supervision in the community for every offender released from custody with the opening of rehabilitation services to a range of providers and the introduction of payment by results for providers. The Ministry of Justice published a consultation on its proposals in early 2013, and since has...
45. Reducing Reoffending Children and Families Pathway
In 2004, the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) set out seven pathways in their National Reducing Re-offending Action Plan to provide a framework for working with offenders and providing services in relation to reducing reoffending. One of these pathways was Children and Families, along with Accommodation, Education, Training and Employment, Health, Drugs and Alcohol, Finance, Benefit and Debt, and Attitudes, Thinking and Behaviour. The Children and Families pathway recognises the...
46. Supporting Prisoners' Families: What can schools do? (Families Outside)
This leaflet, for professionals working in schools, provides information and advice to help better support prisoners' children and their families. It includes information and key facts about the impact of imprisonment on children and discusses some of the emotions children may be feeling. The leaflet also suggests ways that staff and schools can support children; such as creating a supportive community in which children and families can talk about what's happening, liaising with...
Click here47. Practice Model: Bristol Strategy and Action Plan for Supporting Children and Families of Offenders
Bristol's city-wide strategy for supporting children and families of offenders, was developed by a multi-agency steering group including representatives from health, children's social care, probation, voluntary organisations and so on. The Strategy ties in children of offenders to the city's children and young people's plan, and sets outcomes for children of offenders which it aims to contribute to. The Action Plan then sets out how the steering group intends to achieve...
48. Practice Model: The Re-Unite Programme
The national Re-Unite programme reunites and houses women leaving prison with their children. Background The Re-Unite programme is currently being piloted in ten areas across the country. It aims to address a 'catch 22' problem in the system whereby when mothers are released from custody, their children are usually in kinship or local authority care and the mothers are therefore generally not considered a priority for housing. Without suitable housing it then becomes very...
