1. Extended/Family Visits
Christina Hall
Director of Operations
Lincolnshire Action Trust

2. Preparation for home life
Widening opportunities for access
Frequency and timings (including weekends)
Maximising learning with Domestic Visits
Barriers to access
Practical: Visits hall numbers
Staffing
Eligibility
Is there an opportunity to overcome logistics
Planning to include:
Logistics, including families
Learning outcomes
Parenting/relationship skills for release
Education curriculum/child development

3. “Family is the golden thread running through the prison system and the agencies that surround it”
(The Farmer Review, 2017)
Maximise opportunities for:
Rehabilitative Culture
“Social response to rehabilitation”
(Professor Shadd Maruna – Rehabilitative Culture Families “Gateway to Society and Community”
Desistance
Link Re-offending receiving visit from family
69% receive visits – 41% re-offend within year 1 of release
31% not received visits – 68% re-offend within year 1 of release
(MoJ – Longitudinal Cohort Study 2013, Hopkins and Brunton Smith)
Resettlement
Over 50% return to home, move in with family and friends
(Thematic Prison and Probation Inspection, 2014)
Develop Resettlement Plans for person in custody and their family

4. Using every opportunity to engage with families…
Family
Visits
Resettlement
Drug & Alcohol
Drug & Alcohol
Violence Reduction
ACCT
Violence Reduction
Health & Mental Health
ACCT
Violence Reduction
Programmes
Education & Work Pathway
Programmes
Sentence planning
Sentence planning