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Results for families of inmates (u.k.)
3 results foundAuthor: Las Casas, Lucy de Title: Measuring Together: Improving Prisoners' Family Ties: Piloting a Shared Measurement Approach Summary: Families are important to anyone - but for prisoners, family ties can make all the difference to rehabilitation. Prisoners who are visited by a relative are 39% less likely to re-offend within a year of release than those who receive no visits. Good relationships between prisoners and their families can also help by boosting employment prospects, improving children's well-being, and reducing homelessness. There are many charities working with prisoners and their families to build and maintain these relationships. They provide visitors centres, run activities to bring families together, train prison staff, and even help prisoners record bedtime stories for their children. But measuring the difference these activities make is difficult - the outcomes are largley intangible and the criminal justice system complex. To try to tackle some of these problems, NPC used a shared measurement approach, working with experts in the field and six charities to understand how different activities can improve family relationships, and how this can be measured. This report recommends how government, funders and charities can strengthen measurement in the sector and help to improve family relationships. The visitor experience and family relationships questionnaires developed as part of this project have helped to start establishing a framework for more standardised measurement in the sector. However, both tools are at an early stage in their development, and need to be developed and refined in light of the pilot, and tested at a greater scale in more diverse settings, before being made available more widely. Details: London: New Philanthropy Capital, 2011. 56p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 25, 2011 at: http://www.philanthropycapital.org/download/default.aspx?id=1144 Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.philanthropycapital.org/download/default.aspx?id=1144 Shelf Number: 121481 Keywords: Children of PrisonersFamilies of Inmates (U.K.) |
Author: Estep, Ben Title: Economic Study of Integrated Family Support Programme (IFS) Summary: nef consulting (the consultancy arm of UK think thank the new economics foundation) was asked in March 2012 to assess the potential socio-economic impact of the Prison Advice and Care Trust’s Integrated Family Support (IFS) programme. This assessment focuses on the economic impact of the work carried out by the programme on behalf of prisoners and their families. Our research is based on case studies, administrative data provided by the programme and interviews with programme staff. There is a sizeable body of literature on the varied needs of prisoners and their families and a growing recognition that these needs, particularly those related to the maintenance of productive family ties, are closely associated with successful resettlement. The importance of prisoner and family support work is underscored by the rapidly growing prison population. At the time of writing, there are just under 87,000 people in prison in England and Wales, an increase of 23 per cent over the last ten years and a population that has nearly doubled over the last two decades. Whilst delivering economic savings is not the primary motivation of IFS, in a climate of both reduced social spending and increasing prison populations this is an important and under-evidenced question to consider. For purposes of this analysis, we focus on IFS work in three prisons: HMP Swansea, HMP Wandsworth, and HMP Eastwood Park, and in three different areas: visits (including help arranging and supporting visits between offenders and their families and intermediary work between offenders and families); support to families (including provision of information, emotional support, referral to services and interfacing with social services); and resettlement-focused help (including housing and employment support, and benefits and debt advice). Based on our review of the support that IFS offers and accounting for multiple scenarios, we estimate that IFS delivers potential benefits to the State of between £515,465 and £3,479,294 over a one year period. Based on an annual cost per programme site of £40,368 in London and £35,972 elsewhere, and using our middle estimate, this represents a value of £1,281,240 or return of £11.41 for every £1 invested. The predominant source of this impact is in cost savings from reductions in reoffending due to IFS work toward the encouragement and supporting of visits, and the consequent maintenance of family ties. Potential social and health care savings related to prisoner’s families have also been identified, as well as cost avoidance based on resettlement-focused planning. It is worth noting that there are a number of other probable impacts connected to IFS that are beyond the scope of this study, and the existing literature, to capture. This includes the future potential positive impacts on children and their life chances, amongst others. This assessment demonstrates that IFS provides good value for money for the taxpayer. As IFS’s work continues, we would encourage recording client outcomes systematically and longitudinally in order to evidence the socio-economic impact of the programme. The way in which the support offered contributes separately and collectively to changes for offenders and families is in need of deeper investigation. A better understanding of the way in which individual IFS sites are developing their model to create change will both contribute to the on-going development of the programme and help its wider impact. This conservative assessment has been prepared using a portfolio analysis approach informed by Social Return on Investment (SROI) principles and cost-benefit analysis. Beyond the areas of support on which we focus here, case studies and conversations with IFS staff, as well as evidence in the research literature, suggests that IFS’s work also has a material impact on the well-being of prisoners and families. Moving forward, IFS may consider adopting a full social value analysis which could help evidence and value these additional benefits. Details: London: nef (new economics foundation), 2012. 35p Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 16, 2012 at: http://www.prisonadvice.org.uk/files/nef_Pact%20IFS%20Economic%20study.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://www.prisonadvice.org.uk/files/nef_Pact%20IFS%20Economic%20study.pdf Shelf Number: 125593 Keywords: Cost-Benefit AnalysisFamilies of Inmates (U.K.)Prisoner ReentryPrisonersVisitation |
Author: Losel, Friedrich Title: Risk and protective factors in the resettlement of imprisoned fathers with their families Summary: Parental imprisonment can be one of the most critical life events for families. It can disrupt marital and family relationships, have negative outcomes for children, and aggravate material and social problems. Furthermore, adjusting to life after prison is challenging for ex-prisoners and their families. Approximately one-half of prisoners are fathers of children under the age of 18, yet prisoners' children and families seem to be an 'invisible group' in our society (Ministry of Justice/Department for Schools, Children and Families, 2007). How families adjust to the return of an imprisoned partner or parent, the stress these events place on parents and children, and the support systems and coping mechanisms of family members have been rarely addressed in research. Most of past research has focused on parental imprisonment as a risk factor in the development of families and, in particular, the children (e.g., Murray & Farrington, 2008). On the other hand, families with strong ties can also be 'a resource, which is part of the solution' (Ministry of Justice, 2007, p. 17). Such relationships may help to protect the children of prisoners from negative outcomes and enable ex-prisoners to desist from further offending. To provide more detailed knowledge on both risk and protective factors and processes, the present study has been carried out in a collaboration between Ormiston Children and Families Trust and the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge (funded by a grant from the Big Lottery Fund). The project is the first prospective longitudinal study in the United Kingdom and Europe to investigate risk and protective factors in the resettlement of imprisoned fathers and their families that gathered data from family sets of parents and children. It has addressed the quality of family relationships, contact during imprisonment, communication and problem solving, parenting and care-giving, informal social support, experiences of stigmatisation, finances, employment, accommodation, participation in support programmes, health issues, social behaviour, resilience and other factors that may be linked to positive or negative outcomes for parents and children. The research has been undertaken not only to increase our knowledge of such processes, but also to assist the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and third sector organisations working to support families to develop more effective interventions for imprisoned fathers, their (ex)partners and their children. Details: Cambridge, UK: University of Cambridge, 2012. 125p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 5, 2015 at: http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/research/fathers_in_prison/final_report.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/research/fathers_in_prison/final_report.pdf Shelf Number: 134544 Keywords: Children of PrisonersFamilies of Inmates (U.K.)ReentryResettlement |