SCIE Resource guide 11: Children of prisoners - maintaining family ties

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our advisory board and all the people from various agencies and organisations who spent time talking with us, advising us and who contributed valuable resources and training materials. We would also like to thank all the local safeguarding children boards who took the time to respond to our questionnaire.

Advisory group

• Action for Prisoners’ Families - Sarah Salmon
• Thames Valley Partnership - Patsy Townsend, James Campbell
• Ormiston - Richard Nicholls, Ladan Nourbakhsh
• Department for Children, Schools and Families - Kate Oakes
• Kids VIP - Annetta Bennett
• Revolving Doors Agency - Julian Corner, Sarah Jones
• Storybook Dads - Sharon Berry
• University of Cambridge - Joseph Murray
• Prisoners’ Families and Friends - Julie Howlin
• West Midlands Family Pathways Project - Lesley Davies, John Withington
• Family Welfare Association - Rose De Peaztron

Contributors

• Ministry of Justice/National Offender Management Service - Vivien Brandon
• Youth Justice Board ­- Mary Geaney
• Department for Children Schools and Families - Annabel Burns
• Partners of Prisoners and Families Support Group - Farida Anderson
• Ormiston - Ruth Black and Daphne Griffith
• String of Pearls - Mary Stephenson
• Prison Service - Barbara Treen
• HMP Gloucester Visitors’ Centre - Jacqui Baxter
• SCIE - Walt Brown
• HMP Maghaberry - Austin Tracey, Susan McAuley
• Northern Ireland Prison Service - Maureen Erne
• Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders - Siobhan O’Dwyer
• Barnardo’s Northern Ireland - Helen Dunn
• Scottish Prison Service - Derek Macleod and Jim Carney
• All attendees of the following practice sites (see Appendix 4 for the full list)
  • Banbury, England
  • Halton Borough, England
  • Devon and Cornwall, England
  • Telford, England
  • Partners of Prisoners and Families Support Group (POPS) - Manchester, England
  • Norwich, England
  • Representatives from across Northern Ireland
  • Scottish Prison Service and Families Outside.