Children and families

Many offenders' relationships are broken or fragmented as a result of their offending, leaving their families unsupported, and increasing the likelihood of inter-generational offending, mental health and financial problems. We want to promote projects that enable children and families to play a significant role in supporting an offender to make and sustain changes which reduce re-offending.

The Mothers Union - http://www.themothersunion.org
In the UK, over 1,000 MU volunteers work in 90 prisons, seeking to help families sustain and develop their relationships whilst parted by imprisonment.

Prison Advice & Care Trust - www.prisonadvice.org.uk
The Prison Advice & Care Trust supports prisoners’ and their children and families, enabling them to maintain relationship, through providing prison-based family support, supporting prison visits, children’s play, and parenting and relationship education in partnership with other charities, including Time for Families www.timeforfamilies.org.uk and Safe Ground www.safeground.org.uk.  pact also works to reduce the risk of suicide and self-harm amongst prisoners recently received into prison,  and has developed Basic Caring Communities, an alternative model of Community Chaplaincy: www.prisonadvice.org.uk/?q=bacc