Reproduced with kind permission of the Times Educational Supplement. First published 15 July 2011

The sins of the fathers

A child with a parent in prison often chooses not to speak about it at school, fearing stigma and humiliation. Nick …

Kate Hendry, Offender Lecturer, The Learning Centre, HMP Barlinnie Glasgow, writes:

Seven dads, six mums, one granny and eleven children reading stories and eating cakes – a happy afternoon to celebrate fathers’ day and encourage reading. But this event was …

Parc Supporting Families at HMP/YOI Parc is a group of staff who, along with the help of external agencies, have evolved an innovative and progressive provision for offenders, their children and families.

Building upon the evidence that working with the …

‘For too long, our culture has treated boys who become fathers . . . as detached misfits who are the architects of many of our nation’s problems, rather than seeing these youth for who they really are: young men trying

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Many policy documents and some legislation require family, health and education professionals to engage with ‘parents’. This should, of course, mean that they engage with fathers as well as mothers – but research show that this tends to happen all …

Making sure your agency registers key information about all dads as a matter of course is a MUST. In fact for all agency staff to ROUTINELY gather such details is the single most important step to engaging with substantial numbers …