A workshop from the Community Justice Cymru conference 2013.

1. Invisible Walls
Wales
Corin Morgan-Armstrong
IWW Senior Manager
Karen Rees
IWW Children’s Services
Manager

2. Invisible Walls Core Aims
•Reduce the risk of reoffending
and returning to prison
•Improve the quality of life for
children and families of
prisoners
•Reduce the risk of
intergenerational offending

3. Invisible Walls Wales Overview
•To engage with 20 families each year over 4 years
•Funded by Big Lottery and focussed on the S.
Wales area
•To work in partnership with voluntary and statutory
agencies
•Welsh Centre for Crime and Social Justice
undertaking research and evaluation of project over
4 year period
•Built in replication model – hoped to be delivered in
all prisoners in the UK in the long term

4. Invisible Walls Wales staff
 4 Family Integration Mentors within HMP
Parc working directly with prisoner and
family
 Education, Training and Employment
Officer and Substance Misuse worker,
Consultant Social Worker
 Barnardo’s team based in the community
delivering a suite of services to prisoners
and their families
 YISP worker available to work directly with
children effected by a parent in prison

5. Referral Process
•Internal and external referrals
•Open Referral Forum attended
by prison and community
partners
•Appropriate referrals identified
and allocated a place on the
IWW programme

6. Services the prisonerin Parc
can access:
•MPACT
•Family Man
•Father’s Inside
•Learning Together
•Parenting for Dads
•Baby Steps

7. Services the family in the
community can access:
•Family Group Conferencing
•Parenting programmes
•Advocacy Support
•VolunteerSupport
•Youth Inclusion Support Programme
•Gwalia

8. Invisible Walls Wales
Evaluation/Assessment Tools
 Family Star – A tool for supporting and
measuring change when carrying out direct
1:1 work with people
 Crime Pics/Problem Inventory (prisoner
only)
 Goodman’s Strengths and Difficulties
Questionnaire (parent and teacher) – A
screening tool to assess
emotional/behavioural difficulties in CYP
 Self-report service-user questionnaires –
To evaluate the impact of taking part in the
process
 Rickter Scale – A motivation and evaluation
tool for CYP

9. Overall Benefits forfamilies
working with
Invisible Walls Wales
 Improved changes in family
dynamics
 A decrease in family problems
 A greater sense of stability and
social inclusion
 Improved behaviour in children at
home and in school
 Father is family focused and
motivated to complete resettlement
plan

10. Thank You
Please pick up a leaflet
and briefing/referral form
Any enquiries:
Karen.rees@barnardos.org.uk
mary.cooke@uk.g4s.com