Children of prisoners e-learning course

Published: 2008 | Free to use | Learning Management System compatible

This course provides an engaging introduction to the significant, but unknown, number of children who are affected by the loss of a parent or carer to prison.

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 wellbeing 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.

Course modules

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• Module 1: An introduction Open

  

  In this course module:

  • You'll learn more about the characteristics and common experiences that children of prisoners may share and why it is important to know about them.
  • You'll then be asked to take a quiz where you can test your knowledge of key facts and figures relating to children of prisoners (statistics accurate to June 2008).
  • This resource ends with a summary of the main points.

  This resource will further your understanding of:

  • who children of prisoners are and what they may have to go through
  • why it is important to know about these children
  • how many children are affected
  • the social and emotional impact of parental imprisonment on a child
  • key facts and figures
  • legislation and how it relates to this group

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• Module 2: The pathway from arrest to release Open

  

  In this course module:

  • You'll learn more about the characteristics and common experiences that children of prisoners may share and why it is important to know about them.
  • You'll then be asked to take a quiz where you can test your knowledge of key facts and figures relating to children of prisoners (statistics accurate to June 2008).
  • This resource ends with a summary of the main points.

  This resource will further your understanding of:

  • the pathway through the criminal justice system encompassing the stages of arrest, court, prison sentence and release
  • the voluntary sector services and resources that are available at each stage of the pathway
  • the roles and responsibilities at each stage of the pathway for:
    
    1. police officers
    2. social workers in children's services
    3. behavioural support workers
    4. Sure Start children's centre staff
    5. probation officers

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• Module 3: Approaches to practice with children of prisoners Open

  

  In this course module:

  • You'll learn more about the characteristics and common experiences that children of prisoners may share and why it is important to know about them.
  • You'll then be asked to take a quiz where you can test your knowledge of key facts and figures relating to children of prisoners (statistics accurate to June 2008).
  • This resource ends with a summary of the main points.

  This resource will further your understanding of:

  • different approaches to working with children of prisoners
  • key resources available to professionals working in this area
  • how you might develop your own practice, as well as that of others with whom you work

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Course details

• Who they are suitable for Open

  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 wellbeing 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.

• Terms of useOpen

  All material in these 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 any of SCIE’s learning resources is not authorised unless permission is first obtained in writing.

  Please note these courses are provided free of charge on an ‘as seen’ basis. Although SCIE’s courses have been used over many years with almost no reported problems, SCIE cannot provide technical support for their implementation or to investigate or fix any reported technical problems, nor does it warrant that they are fully compliant with all or any technical platform.

  Any known issue with an individual course is noted on the opening page of that course.

  This course was developed using a technology called Adobe Flash, which is not compatible with any Apple/Android platform, and may not work on any mobile device.

• Learning Management System compatibleOpen

  This course is fully SCORM compliant. That means they can be loaded into a Learning Management System (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), such as WebCT, Blackboard or Moodle, and accessed locally.

  Please note that this course was not designed to export any scores or track progress throughout the resource. Therefore, this course can be freely accessed by users, but there will be no tracking or grading functionality.

  To obtain the SCORM-compliant version of this course, please contact us.