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Reading Champions also runs in prisons. Click here for more information.
Action for Prisoners' Families promotes the just
treatment of prisoners' families by the prison system and
society across the UK. It encourages the development of, and
acts as a voice for, those organisations providing support
to those families. www.actionpf.org.uk
Changing Lives Through Literature
is an American programme that aims to use books to help prisoners
gain insight into their lives and behaviour. Visit: http://cltl.umassd.edu
The Federation of Prisoners' Family Support Groups works
to encourage the support of prisoners' families and raise
awareness of their needs with voluntary and statutory services.
Visit: www.prisonersfamilies.org.uk.
The Howard League. Working to reform the penal system,
the Howard League holds conferences and debates and publishes
books and reports. It also runs projects in schools and prisons.
www.howardleague.org
Libraries and family reading in prisons is a handbook
produced by The Reading Agency to share lessons learnt during
its Big Book Share pilot project. It provides both library
and prison staff with practical approaches to developing family
reading programmes in prisons. Cost £7.50.
Email alison.shakspeare@readingagency.org.uk
or call 0871 750 1207.
The National Family Learning Network's
website features a number of resources for working in prisons,
including guide called 'Family Learning Working with Offenders'.
Visit
www.campaign-for-learning.org.uk/familylearningnetwork
No Sweat pack. Produced by the Basic Skills Agency
in partnership with HM Prison Service to support the basic
skills development of prisoners by using sport as a stimulus.
The pack uses original articles and illustrations from sports
magazines and journals, with sports trivia scattered throughout.
The activities and exercises work on reading, writing, oral
skills and numeracy and contains four units, which can be
worked on in any order. Cost £9.50 (reference A875).
Contact: Basic Skills Agency publications order line. Tel:
0870 600 2400.
The Prisoners' Education Trust. Founded in 1989, the
Prisoners' Education Trust works to extend educational opportunies
for prisoners. It provides distance learning and grants for
prisoners wanting to make a new start. www.prisonerseducation.org.uk
Prison libraries training pack. A loose-leaf 'how to'
guide for prison library provision, produced by the Prison
Libraries Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and
Information Professionals. Cost £5.
Contact Group Secretary Carole Bowe, librarian at HMP Gloucester,
on 01452 453 043 or email carole.bowe@gloucestershire.gov.uk.
The Prison Reform Trust offers advice and information
to prisoners and their families, as well as prison and probation
staff, the legal profession, students, academics and members
of the public. www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk
Reaching all: an inclusive learning handbook. Guide produced
by the Department for Education and Skills and HM Prison Service
to help prisons and young offender institutions to support
those with learning difficulties and/or disabilities.
Contact: DfES Publications. Tel: 0845 60 222 60.
Storybook Dads: an independent, registered charity
based at Dartmoor Prison which enables prisoners to record
and edit stories on CD for their children. For more information
contact storybookdads@blueyonder.co.uk
or visit www.storybookdads.co.uk.
Work Out pack. Produced by the Basic Skills Agency in
partnership with HM Prison Service to provide basic skills
tutoring materials for young people and adults, based on skills
for work and life. It uses original text from newspapers and
magazines to teach basic skills in four units. Cost £9.50
plus p&p (reference A876).
Contact: Basic Skills Agency publications order line. Tel:
0870 600 2400.
Working with the Children of Prisoners. 120,000
children each year in England and Wales suffer the trauma
of a parent being sent to prison. Statistics on these children
are not kept so all figures are best estimates. Save the Children,
together with a steering group drawn from organisations working
with prisoners' families, has produced this resource pack
for teachers working with the children of prisoners. Cost
£7.50.
Contact: Publications Sales, Save the Children, 17 Grove Lane,
London SE5 8RD UK. Tel: 020 7703 5400.
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