Action for Prisoners' Families have a critical role to act as a facilitating organisation to bring together organisations who have direct experience of prisoners' families.
Ways of working
On these pages we want to highlight and signpost the ways you work, find out from you what works and what doesn't, tell you about the information and resources which are available, and set up networks to exchange information about good practice and influence policy.
Ways of Working
The Government has set out its proposals for the services for parents, children and families in the foundation years. Supporting Families in the Foundation Years explains the Government's plans for the role of commissioners, leaders and practitioners across the range of services for these families.
If you would like to ask other practitioners about the services they provide, or you want to recommend an initiative or way of working, or tell other members about a resource you have come across, you can do this in our special interest groups. You will need to become a member first. It's free to join. Sign up on-line.
Action for Prisoners' Families range of publications and resouces will help you in your work. Go to our publications and resources page to find out what's available to order, as well as free downloads. Download our new briefings for practitioners on our Supporting the families of prisoners page.
Go to our current projects page to find out what we are working on and how we can help you.
The Action for Prisoners' Families Training and Development Team will be able to help you with your queries about working with the families of prisoners and offenders and talk to you about training to help you in your work. Their contact details are in the box at the bottom of the page.
Our training pages will tell you about our Hidden Sentence and bespoke training, as well as that of our members.
If you are interested in setting up a support group or you are working with families who want to set up a support group, have a look at our guide to setting up a support group below.
Find out about good practice and evaluation in running visits. Download our 2011 edition of Recognising Quality - an evaluation toolkit for prison visitors' centres below. You can also download our Family Friendly Prisons Challenge 2010 report, which contains lots of ideas for running family visits, below.
Have a look at our resources for practitioners below where you will find details of the good practice resources APF and our members produce. Let us know if you have found practice resources you think should be added to it.