The Prison Family Support Alliance, made up of the Prison, Advice and Care Trust (Pact), Nepacs, Pops, and Jigsaw, also aims to develop the practice base around providing family support services.
Andy Keen-Downs, chief executive of Pact, said family support workers in prisons can help address safeguarding issues with the children of prisoners and support family relationships to help reduce reoffending rates.
He estimated it would cost around £6m to place family support workers in each of the 124 prisons and YOIs in England and Wales.
But this investment could reap savings of more than £70m in terms of reducing parental reoffending and the number of children taken into care, he added.
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