Storybook Dads (and Storybook Mums in the women's prison estate) works in over 100 UK prisons. As well as enabling imprisoned parents to maintain family contact, they also provide training and employment for hundreds of prisoners, improving their skills and chances of rehabilitation.
Storybook Dads works in over 100 UK prisons and helps to maintain the vital emotional bond between parent and child by enabling parents to make bedtime story CDs, DVDs and other educational gifts for their children. The process is fairly simple. The prisoner chooses a book and is recorded reading the story. The recording is downloaded onto a computer where music and sound effects are added (much of this work is undertaken by trained prisoners who benefits from being able to develop new skills and experience). The finished story is put onto a CD and then sent to the child. Most prisons can only record audio, but a DVD option is available in a few prisons so the child can see as well as hear the story. Storybook Dads believes that the gift of a story CD from an imprisoned parent, can help to overcome the children's sense of loss and confusion and help to maintain the bond between parent and child, bringing great comfort to both. As long as a prisoner is allowed access to their children, they can apply. Although the scheme is for parents, many prisons allow other family members to participate including grandparents, siblings, aunts & uncles.
Visit Storybook Dads for further details about the service.
E: https://www.storybookdads.org.uk/forms/get-in-touch
T: 07597 838432
A: Storybook Dads, HMP Channings Wood, Denbury, Newton Abbot, Devon. TQ12 6DW
W: https://www.storybookdads.org.uk/
