Children Heard and Seen

Parental Imprisonment

Invisible Harms and Hierarchies of Shame: The distinct challenges faced by children with a parent in prison for sexual offences

Click here to read the full report Existing research on prisoners shows that there is a clear hierarchy of offences that determine how society establishes their moral culpability. Within this hierarchy, sex offenders face an increased risk of stigmatisation in comparison with other offences. However, no research has ever been done to explore how this …

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Seven Calls to action

Seven Calls To Action

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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