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Barnardo’s Registered Charity Nos. 216250 and SC037605
Sam MonaghanExecutive Director of Children’s Services
Barnardo’s
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About Barnardo’s: No child left behind
• Almost 150 years• 900 services• 200,000 children, young people and families• Our focus: the most vulnerable:
– child sexual exploitation– children leaving care– early intervention– children affected by parental imprisonment
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Children with a parent in prison
• 200,000 children+ children in England and Wales– Two and a half times the number of children in
care• Half a million child visits in 2014• 25% of men in Young Offenders Institutions are or
are shortly to become fathers
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Outcomes and outlook
• No systematic identification• No systematic support• Bullying and stigma• Mental health and behavioural difficulties
65% of boys with a parent in prison go on to offend themselves
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Reducing re-offending
• Maintaining family ties reduces the likelihood of reoffending by 39%
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Tackling the Problem
• Barnardo’s has 20 years’ experience in this field• Currently run 13 specialist services in England and
Wales• Prison visits• “Through the gate”• Community Support for Offenders’ Families (CSOF)• ‘Hidden sentence’ training• I-HOP
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Working in prisons
• Critical part of rehabilitation• Practice is variable• “Core” not “extra”• Integrated approach• New research
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Effective family engagement in prisons
• Over 25 years experience
• ‘cultural shift’
• Work in South West prisons
• Building relationships
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What have we learnt
• Tenacity - keep going despite barriers!
• Support of Governor is gold dust!
• Gain the empathy of prison staff
• Navigating the complex world of children and family services
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Family Ties
“An offender’s family are the most effective resettlement agency.”HM Criminal Justice Joint Inspection on Resettlement by Prison, Probation & Ofsted Inspectorates,2014
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Wider changes
• Tackling re-offending and intergenerational offending
• Joint working from pre-arrest to reintegration into the community
• Role of Government: we need national leadership on identification and support
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Conclusion
• Supporting children and families of offenders goes hand in hand with reducing re-offending
• It also helps tackle intergenerational offending and disadvantage
• Key to this is effective partnership working