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Guidance for prison staff working with Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller people: Supporting resources
These resources, provided by Friends Families and Travellers, support guidance for prison staff working with Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller people.
October 2026Read more
Guidance for prison staff working with Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller people
This guidance, developed by Friends, Families and Travellers, sets out good practice for prison staff working with Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller people, including young women.
October 2026Read more
Integrated Planning and Assessment Manual
This manual details how practitioners from prison, probation and leaving care services can work together with young men in prison with care experience to integrate the support they receive. Publisher: Innovation Unit
January 2024Read more
Supporting young adults with experience of care and custody – Handbook
Informed by the piloting of Always Hope in the West Midlands, this handbook aims to help staff in other regions implement the protocols and practices that can improve the support young adults with care experience receive in
prison and on release.
Publisher: Innovation Unit
Your legal rights on remand: a guide for young adults
This guide is a starting point to explain your legal rights if you are remanded. The guide is written for remanded young adults aged 18-25. Publisher: Howard League for Penal Reform
October 2023Read more
Dare to Care: Representing care experienced young people
This guide will support criminal lawyers representing care experienced children and young adults to understand the relevant legal framework, reduce unnecessary criminalisation, and achieve better outcomes.
Publisher: Youth Justice Legal Centre Authors: Kate Aubrey-Johnson and Dr Laura Janes
Your Guide to the Male Estate
This guide provides boys and young men moving into the adult male prison estate for the first time with advice, information and support.
Publisher: Young Justice Advisors
Your guide to the care system
This guide provides young adults with advice and information to help them navigate the care system.
Publisher: Young Justice Advisors
Your guide to the female estate
This advice and information guide is for girls and young women who are moving into the adult women’s estate for the first time.
Publisher: Young Justice Advisors