James* is 14 and his dad has been in and out of prison for alcohol-related offences since he was eight.
He often listens to other children talking about the fun things they did with their dads at the weekend and feels angry at his own father for letting him down.
He struggles to express his emotions and doesn’t feel able to talk to friends for fear of being bullied. He has started getting into fights and was recently involved in some low-level antisocial behaviour outside school.
James’s experience is far from unique. An estimated 310,000 children each year in England and Wales have a parent in prison.
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