Prison
200,000 children a year have a parent in prison
MoJ estimates that in the year to October 2022 there were 192,912 children with a parent in prison.
22nd July 2024
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MoJ estimates that in the year to October 2022 there were 192,912 children with a parent in prison.
How can we make prison spaces more child-friendly for children visiting a parent?
Prison Reform Trust toolkit to help practitioners support children with a mum in prison.
Guide from Sussex Prisoners’ Families to help children and young people understand what life is like for a loved-one in prison.
The Joint Committee on Human Rights tables amendments to the PCSC Bill to protect right to family life of children when their mother is sentenced.
Joint Committee on Human Rights argues that we should do everything we can to respect the right to family life of children whose mothers are sent to prison.
100 poems by parents and children affected by imprisonment. Edited by Lucy Baldwin and Ben Raikes.
An excellent new resource from i-HOP aimed at all practitioners working with children to help them cope with the arrest and/or imprisonment of a family member.
The impact of police raids on children can be traumatic, but there are better approaches argues a fascinating new report from PACT.
