Mission: To reduce the risk of reoffending by encouraging young people to bond with their family
Funding: 25,000 for a three-year course, from the Department for Education and Skills (DfES)
Locked up Love originated from a 2002 Social Exclusion Unit report, Reducing re-offending by ex-prisoners, which found young offenders who keep good relationships with their families while in prison are 60 per cent less likely to reoffend upon release.
The programme, from youth charity Film it!, gives inmates the chance to record messages for their loved ones on DVD. They write their own stories, film them with other inmates and send the DVD to their family.
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