Children of prisoners

These e-Learning resources are freely available to all users and, through audio, video and interactive uses of technology, will provide the user with an engaging introduction to the significant, but unknown, number of children who are affected by the loss of a parent or carer to prison.

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Screenshot	Title	Description
	Children of prisoners: an introduction	Video excerpts and an interactive quiz.
	The pathway from arrest to release	An interactive journey through the Criminal Justice
	Approaches to practice with children of prisoners	A self-assessment activity.

Who they are suitable for:

These resources are particularly suitable for statutory children's services staff, all staff working with children and families in the voluntary and independent organisations with responsibility for the health and well-being of children, educational staff, including teachers, heads, behaviour support workers, school nurses, Teaching Assistants and local safeguarding children's board members.

They will also be of interest to staff working within the criminal justice system, families and carers (including foster carers), Social work degree students, health professionals, policy makers and prisoners themselves.

About the authors:

Salina Bates
Information Manager, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

Salina Bates has a Bsc. Hons in Experimental Psychology and a Msc. Applied Forensic Psychology. She has experience working in the field of criminal justice as a researcher for Sussex police force and as a research analyst at West Sussex Youth Offending Team (YOT). Her work included developing performance of the YOT, evaluation of interventions and European research into links between domestic violence and youth offending patterns.

Salina has been at SCIE for 4 years working as a team and project manager. Salina’s main current roles are to manage SCIE’s work programme support team, project manage the organisation’s research briefing series, co project manage the children of prisoners project at SCIE and develop the internal information retrieval and scoping elements of the organisation’s work.

Salina has published on links between domestic violence and youth offending and systematic mapping.

Sara Lewis
Practice Development Manager, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

Sara began her career as a probation officer, before moving to work in the mental health unit at the National Association for Care and Resettlement of Offenders. She subsequently worked for Revolving Doors Agency, delivering services to vulnerable people in the criminal justice system, before joining SCIE in 2003. Sara is a registered social worker.

Acknowledgements:

SCIE would like to thank the following people and organisations:

Our peer reviewers: Helen Dunn, Daphne Griffith, Sarah Jones.

The professionals who took part in our user trials: Duncan Hume, Cora Carvey, Laura Davies, Eileen Thompson, James Campbell, Emma Cockerell.

The organisations that kindly allowed us to use their video footage in the resources:

• Kid’s VIP for footage from their DVD ‘Kids Visiting.
• Barnardo’s N.Ireland for footage from their DVD ‘It’s a tough time for everyone’.
• Action for Prisoners’ Families for footage from their DVD ‘Homeward Bound’.

Technical development:

Programming and graphic design by Cogapp Ltd.

Copyright

All material in these e-learning resources, including text, graphics, photographs, video and audio is copyright of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), unless otherwise stated. Use of these resources, and import of the resources into learning management systems, for educational purposes is freely permitted, but commercial use of this learning resource is not authorised unless permission is first obtained from SCIE.