Our Impact
‘I couldn’t have got through the last eight months without you; it makes me quite emotional.’ woman who joined us at a support group. This is the impact of our […]
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Partnership project aims to keep 53 women out of prison and with their children – Sussex Prisoners’ Families The Maslow Foundation and The Probation Service.
£30 million from government – preventing women going to prison.
Sussex Prisoner’s Families welcomes the announcement that a record amount of funding will be directed to services and organisations preventing women from going to prison. The government is clear that many women in prison are victims […]
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Matt’s Marathon Journey
Raising literacy rates push as Jack Reacher author, Lee Child, appointed by the government as Reading Laureate.
English assessments undertaken by prisoners in the prison estate show 65% of prisoners have low literacy skills, at or below that of an 11-year-old. Low literacy skills are predictors of offending […]
Relief of Backlog in the Magistrates Court
Our response to the use of AI tools to create non-consensual images.
Sussex Prisoner’s Families Responds to the Government’s National Youth Policy
Sussex Prisoner’s Families welcomes the recent government ‘Youth Matters: Your National Youth Strategy’ and the accompanying ‘State of the Nation’ report[1]. In particular, we welcome the beginning, and we emphasise […]
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The Big Give Christmas Challenge
Sussex Prisoner’s Families are participating in the The Big Give Christmas Challenge this year. From 2 December and goes through the 9 December any donations received through this route will […]
Clare Walsh joins Policy & Communications Officer
Clare Walsh, a trauma informed policy and comms officer with lived experience of kinship care and the criminal justice system, has recently joined our team! With research across the charity […]
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