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Home-Start Hull is awarded a grant from Lloyds TSB Foundation for its work with prisoner families
In 2007 Home-Start Hull begun a year-long pilot project working with
families with a partner in prison. Now with a continuation
grant from Lloyds TSB foundation they are able to develop this project
over the next three years.
From 2009 Home-Start Hull will be responsible for recruiting, training and supervising up to 14 Home-Start volunteers per year. The volunteers will support 20 familes who have a partner in prison coming towards the end of their sentence or, who has recently been released from prison.
Home-Start Hull's pilot project was featured at the Hull prison conference last year. A DVD was also put together explaining Home-Start's service to families visiting HMP Hull. Caroline Hufton, senior coordinator at Home-Start Hull said: "We hope to expand this advertising to other prisons in the area and respond to any trends with regards to where offenders from Hull generally serve most of their time, to see if we can build contacts with other prisons in the country as well."
The new coordinator will spend one day a week at the visitors centre at Hull prison but will also regularly visit other prisons in the region, such as Everthorpe and Wolds and Askham Grange women's prison near York.
Caroline said that they will try and accomodate any family needing help, "For those families who want Home-Start support but live in other areas, then we will refer them to their local scheme. We will be supporting the families to travel to and from the prison if required, to make family visits, support at family days and liaise with the prison and probation service to provide any relevant feedback about the prison's visitors centre, as well as the usual Home-Start support and friendship for families."
Home-Start Hull will be developing the project to work more closely with ex-offenders to try and help them link in to employment, volunteering or training opportunities, as well as supporting couples and their children to make the adjustment from lone parent to two parent families again, after the offender's release.
Home-Start Hull's volunteers will be offered additional training about prison life as well as a tour of Hull prison should they want it.
Find out more about how we support families
From 2009 Home-Start Hull will be responsible for recruiting, training and supervising up to 14 Home-Start volunteers per year. The volunteers will support 20 familes who have a partner in prison coming towards the end of their sentence or, who has recently been released from prison.
Home-Start Hull's pilot project was featured at the Hull prison conference last year. A DVD was also put together explaining Home-Start's service to families visiting HMP Hull. Caroline Hufton, senior coordinator at Home-Start Hull said: "We hope to expand this advertising to other prisons in the area and respond to any trends with regards to where offenders from Hull generally serve most of their time, to see if we can build contacts with other prisons in the country as well."
The new coordinator will spend one day a week at the visitors centre at Hull prison but will also regularly visit other prisons in the region, such as Everthorpe and Wolds and Askham Grange women's prison near York.
Caroline said that they will try and accomodate any family needing help, "For those families who want Home-Start support but live in other areas, then we will refer them to their local scheme. We will be supporting the families to travel to and from the prison if required, to make family visits, support at family days and liaise with the prison and probation service to provide any relevant feedback about the prison's visitors centre, as well as the usual Home-Start support and friendship for families."
Home-Start Hull will be developing the project to work more closely with ex-offenders to try and help them link in to employment, volunteering or training opportunities, as well as supporting couples and their children to make the adjustment from lone parent to two parent families again, after the offender's release.
Home-Start Hull's volunteers will be offered additional training about prison life as well as a tour of Hull prison should they want it.
Find out more about how we support families
