Earlier in the year our founder Sarah Burrows was invited to be interviewed by Laura Thomas for BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, for a series they were running which celebrates the women in our communities who get things done. The interview was broadcast on 30th June 2020 and is available to listen to via the […]
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As with many charities and organisations we have been faced with huge challenges by Covid-19, mainly how we can continue to support our vulnerable and already isolated families whilst maintaining social distancing. On 24th March 2020 prison visits in the UK were suspended, meaning that many of the children we support were unable to have
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On Friday 14th June 2019, Children Heard and Seen and MyTime jointly hosted the first children’s voice conference for children with a parent in prison, ‘Our Time To Be Heard‘. The conference was held in the iconic Churchill Rooms at Westminster, and was attended by MPs, policy makers, Peers, academics and journalists. It was entirely
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The children of prisoners seem invisible in this whole equation,” says Sarah Burrows, founder of Children Heard and Seen. The charity supports children and families with parents or partners serving time, fighting the stigma and shame they face in their communities. Children whose parents have been convicted are three times more likely to commit a crime
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On Friday 14th June a group of children and young people travelled to Westminster to tell MPs, Peers (members of the House of Lords), policy officials, journalists, prison governors and a handful of academics, what it has been like for them to experience parental imprisonment, and what they think should be done to change that
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Each year it’s estimated that 312,000 children are impacted by the imprisonment of a parent. As the prison population continues to rise, so does the number of children who experience a parent in prison. In the last 4 years we at Children Heard and Seen have worked with almost 400 children, young people and their
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In 2017, Sarah was awarded the ‘Points of Light’ award by Theresa May. Points of Light are outstanding individual volunteers – people who are making a change in their community. The Prime Minister uses Points of Light to recognise an inspirational volunteer. In a personal letter to Sarah, Prime Minister Theresa May said: “Through ‘Children
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To whom it may concern, Two years ago my husband was sentenced to prison for fraud and he is due for release in early September 2018. We have two children and are now divorced. A POCA hearing and subsequent confiscation has taken everything he owned so he has nothing. He has been working for the
