Tag: families

11th March 2021

Making It Up: parents in prison connecting through stories

Give a Book workshop leader David Kendall joins us in this guest blog to share the importance of storytelling and how, over lockdown, the project has been keeping prisoners connected with their families. The Making It Up project from reading charity Give a Book supports parents in prison to bond with their children by creating [...]

4th October 2018

Supporting women to engage with their families and reduce reoffending

NCJAA

Clinks is seeking written evidence on how supporting women in contact with the criminal justice system (CJS) to engage with their families can lower recidivism, aid rehabilitation and assist in addressing intergenerational crime. The follow on Farmer Review, led by Lord Farmer, has been commissioned by the Ministry of Justice, and Clinks is leading the review’s call for […]

20th November 2017

Hidden from praise

Alison Frater

Arts enable people to experience creativity in a way that transforms lives; even a single performance can change your life forever. At a conference organised by North East Prisoner Family Support (NEPACS), an organisation that seeks to enable positive futures for prisoners and their families in the north east of England by providing practical and emotional […]

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Making It Up: parents in prison connecting through stories

Supporting women to engage with their families and reduce reoffending

Hidden from praise