1. Ciaran Rafferty Principal Grants Officer The City Bridge Trust www
Ciaran Rafferty Principal Grants Officer The City Bridge Trust

2. Our Programmes include:
Improving Londoners’ Mental Health
“Work with prisoners, ex-prisoners and others in contact with the Criminal Justice System”
Positive Transitions to Independent Living
“Resettlement work with ex-offenders leaving custody”

3. Some Examples: Birth Companions Prisoners’ Families & Friends Service
Support, advice and guidance to pregnant women prisoners
Prisoners’ Families & Friends Service
Mental health & welfare of the wives and children
Concord Prison Trust
Counselling service in Pentonville & Belmarsh

4. Emerging Issues?
The key issues have always been there - it’s only in more recent times that there has been a drive to address them.
Prisons are now more aware of the value of interventions but they don’t have resources.
Better now at making the links eg poor mental health linked to poor literacy and vice-versa.