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NCB Now: News from Wales - Parents in Prison

In Every Child Matters, the Westminster Government estimated that four per cent of children experience the imprisonment of a father during their school years.

Children in Wales is represented on the Wales Children and Families ofOffenders Pathway Group, one of nine sub-groups that are currentlytaking forward the Joining Together in Wales strategy. The strategy setsout the measures and actions the National Offender Management Serviceand the Welsh Assembly Government will put in place to reduce crime. Thevision of the group is that offenders and their families should beeffectively supported to reduce reoffending, keep families together andensure the wellbeing of children.

- Contact Lucy Akhtar by emailinglucy.akhtar@childreninwales.org.uk.

- NCB (England and Northern Ireland) works in partnership with Childrenin Scotland and Children in Wales. For further information visitwww.childreninscotland.org.uk (0131 228 8484) orwww.childreninwales.org.uk (029 2034 2434).

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