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Meeting of the Action for Children and Families of Prisoners Network
On Thursday 11 March 2024, the Action for Children and Families of Prisoners Network joined together online for their second meeting of 2024. The meeting welcomed a presentation from the Office of the Inspector of Prisons (OIP), launched a new network communications...
Book project led by children with parents in prison continues
The book project steering group has met twice in the last two months to progress the book project led by children with parents in prison. 12 young people who have both their mother and father who have been or are currently in prison were reached out to. The...
Family Focussed Criminal Justice – Invisible Walls (Wales)
Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) was delighted to be able to support hosting Corin Morgan-Armstrong to speak about his work at Invisible Walls (Wales), an initiative to provide support, guidance and tangible help to people in prison, who wanted to rebuild or retain...
Children with experience of parental imprisonment get creative
The book project by children of people in prison about their lived experience led by Kids' Own Publishing in collaboration with IPRT and Bedford Row Family Project is now underway with the children! This project offers children the opportunity to collaboratively...
Award for investigation into the human rights of children of people in prison
Photo, from left to right: Alice Chambers, Nicky Ryan, and Órla Ryan. Photographer: Kyran O'Brien/DCU via Journal.ie An investigation into the human rights of children of people in prison by Noteworthy has won the prestigious Mary Raftery Prize. The Prize is awarded...
IPRT Children and Families Project round-up of 2023
For 2023, Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) Children and Families Project aims were: Increase National Recognition of the Rights of Children with a Family Member in Prison Establish a National Support Service for Children and Families with a Family Member in Prison...
Funding secured for research on book project with children of people in prison
The Collaborative Book Project Steering Committee met for the fourth time this year to further progress the project to create a book for children of people in prison by children of people in prison led by Kids' Own Publishing. The Steering Committee, which is made up...
Investigation into prison visits
In November 2023, the Journal's Noteworthy initiative reported on their investigation of prison visits. IPRT Executive Director, Saoirse Brady, comments in the piece, with information included from IPRT's Children and Families Project Coordinator, Ashling Tobin. Some...
Children people of people in prison recognised in new Young Ireland National Policy Framework
21 November 2023 marked a momentous occasion for the IPRT Children and Families Initiative with the launch of the Young Ireland National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2023-2028, a framework that includes children impacted by parental imprisonment. ...
Next steps in the collaborative book project
On 28 September 2023, members of the Action for Children and Families Network (the Network) involved in the collaborative book project steering committee with Kids’ Own Publishing met for the third time to progress the project. The committee welcomed a representative...