Safe Ground News

Safe Ground were deeply sadden to hear that Sue Ellis, a pioneering Family Man and Fathers Inside colleague from HMP Parc, lost her long fight with cancer and passed away in the company of her family on Monday 30th January. We first met Sue on 8th Jan 2010 after she had made it possible for [...] Read more »

The Programmes Team is looking for a volunteer to co-ordinate the activities of a small Steering Group of supporters, providing the group with help, guidance and support as necessary. The Steering Group will take the lead on establishing and managing an Alumni Network, comprising graduates (and their families) of our FM and FI programmes. We [...] Read more »

Safe Ground programmes are long established as being ‘by prisoners for prisoners’ and there is no better way to illustrate their impact than in the voices of our successful participants. Whenever possible we like to share those voices with our supporters, so you can find words from Lee a recent Family Man Graduate at HMP [...] Read more »

Fathers Inside training, 6-8 March 2012, HMPS Newbold Revel Training Centre The Fathers Inside programme is a groundbreaking parenting course which aims to help prisoners contribute to society by teaching them how to support their children’s education and upbringing whilst in custody. Fathers Inside is currently delivered in 10 establishments across England and Wales. This [...] Read more »

A recently completed, independent study of Family Man (FM) has detailed its sustainable impact on developing and maintaining stronger family ties, changing attitudes towards prison and resettlement, and enhancing education, training and employment (ETE) skills. The programme, an intensive 7-week family relationships course joint owned by Safe Ground and the Prison Service, was revised in [...] Read more »

The Walcot Foundation, whose grant made it possible, present a really interesting 12 minute film made by young people on their homepage, giving a wide set of perspectives on parenting, policing, community and the impact of the riots on how we live  and work together. http://www.walcotfoundation.org.uk/index.html. We’re interested in your views, so tweet us @Safe_Ground. Read more »

Safe Ground and Family Man feature in this weeks Times Educational Supplement in an eight-page spread entitled ‘The sins of the fathers’, that looks at different ways that a child with a parent in prison can speak about it in school without fear of stigma and humilation. For more information see the TES website: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6099521 Read more »

Booking is now open for two three-day residential training events. Prison, community and voluntary staff can attend our intensive training sessions to learn how to set up and deliver the HMPS Family Man or Fathers Inside programmes in their establishment. See our booking site for more information. Read more »

Family Man featured on Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour today – here is a link to the show. If you would like to support our work with prisoners and their families, you can donate here. All donations help Safe Ground to design, deliver and manage a range of interventions inside and outside prison in order to [...] Read more »

A Family Man graduate will be featured on Woman’s Hour on Tuesday 26th April. Tune in at 10am to hear Scott talk about his experiences of the programme, and to hear from his mum Patricia about what it’s like to have a son inside. For more information see the Radio 4 website – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010m7kv Read more »