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Developing an integrated local approach to working with children and families of offenders

i-HOP is a national information service aiding professionals in working with offenders' families. It provides a knowledge hub, workshops, and toolkits, fostering links between prisons and community services. Challenges include lack of identification systems, stigma, and resource availability. i-HOP's work in Somerset involves workshops and awareness events to support children of offenders. Key steps include task groups, CAP0 champions, training integration, and identifying children of offenders. Pilot initiatives like the IMPACT Family Project are being developed.

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Developing an integrated local approach to working with children and families of offenders

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  1. Developing an integrated local approach to working with children and families of offenders Polly Wright www.i-hop.org.uk

  2. Introducing i-HOP • National one-stop information & advice service for professionals working with children and families of offenders providing: • Web-based knowledge hub • Rolling programme of awareness raising workshops • Development of Standards and Toolkit to inform and monitor work with offenders’ children and families. • Partnership between Barnardo’s and POPS • Funded by the Department for Education

  3. Why an integrated approach? • Whole-family approach that creates links between prison estate and community-based services. • An approach that responds to each stage of an offenders journey: • Holistic model that recognises the impact on all aspects of a child’s life.

  4. Youth service provision GPs Peer group YOTs Peer Group Trust School nurses Prisons Routine Self esteem Troubled Families Physical wellbeing CAMHS Behaviour Self identity LSCBs Emotional wellbeing Relationships Schools Police Financial wellbeing Educational attainment Attachment Family Support Probation Early Help

  5. Challenges to an integrated approach? • Lack of identification systems in place. • Stigma. • Awareness about needs of offenders’ children and their families. • Knowledge about available support. • Information sharing. • Available resources. • Multi-agency working. • Lack of policy recognition and/or guidance.

  6. Development of work in Somerset • Local Safeguarding Children’s Board keen to develop policy and practice regarding CAPO. • i-HOP invited to deliver workshops to raise awareness within: education, police, social care and health. • Delivery of Somerset-wide event to ensure that all agencies aware of need to support CAPO and provide opportunity for them to inform LA-wide strategy. • Development of draft Action Plan informed by multi-agency professionals. Priority actions identified at multi-agency steering group. “I’m sorry to say this, but as a practitioner and as a strategic manager I knew little of the impact of this, Actually just hearing the facts about the number of children affected … I was completely astonished and I was also quite embarrassed.’

  7. Key steps taken • Establishment of 2 multi-agency Task and Finish Groups focusing on: • Identification of children affected by parental imprisonment • Establishment of CAPO Champions across Somerset • Funding of a 12 month Barnardo’s CAPO Engagement Manager post (via Safer Somerset Partnership Community Safety Fund). - Integration of CAPO into staff training and development, via: - LSCB Introduction to Safeguarding - Police safeguarding training - Promotion of Hidden Sentence training - Education Psychologists within schools - Links with i-HOP

  8. Starting to establish processes for identifying children of offendersby: • Establishing who currently gathers information and ensuring clear information sharing protocols in place. • Encouraging self-identification by making information available at each point of the offender journey and through establishing Champions schemes. - At point of arrest (AIRS workers in custody suites) - Via IMPACT workers. • Development of pilot practice initiatives to support children of offenders: • IMPACT Family Project pilot • Champions in Schools and Get Set Hubs

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