To assess the impact of the programme on participants’ family relationships, parenting confidence and emotional maturity.

Qualitative interviews with delivery and prison staff, 1:1 semi-structured interviews with participants and observational studies of sessions.
Quantitative data included pre and post questionnaires.

Participants were able to identify and articulate a range of positive outcomes that they attributed to the programme.

An increased sense of self-esteem, confidence and heightened mood associated with the feeling of being spoken to as a parent, and not just as a young offender.

To assess the impact and efficacy of the GROUNDation Poetry Project.

Methodology Quantitative statistical analysis of 95 post course questionnaires completed.

92% of respondents wanted to attend another GROUNDation workshop

94/95 respondents said they would recommend GROUNDation to others

97% of respondents said they would continue to engage with poetry in the future

87% of respondents were attending their first ever poetry workshop

To assess the impact of Family Man on re-offending

Quantitative statistical analysis of 184 offenders who had completed the Family Man course across nine different prison between 2005 and 2013

The one-year proven re-offending rate for 184 offenders who completed this intervention was 31%, compared with 37% for a matched control group of similar offenders.

To assess the impact of the Man-Up programme across.

Qualitative semi-structured interviews with prisoners were undertaken as well as quantitative statistical analysis of 21 pre and post course questionnaires.

Inferential statistical analyses have been omitted from this interim report, but will be included in the final full report.

To evaluate the effectiveness of the Man Up Development Project in Isis, Glen Parva and Littlehey prisons

Questionnaires distributed to participants across all three prisons to assess attitudinal changes

There was an average 86% completion rate

All groups reported improved wellbeing scores

There was overall positive attitudinal change

There was a statistically significant positive attitudinal change in participants in relation to perceptions of and reaction to ‘alpha’ male behaviour, as well as substantial positive shifts in attitudes to aggression and towards gender equality in the role of the ‘provider’

All of the custody-based groups rated the programme above 7 / 10 in terms of considering it an effective challenge to offending behaviour

To assess the impact of Family Man on re-offending

Quantitative statistical analysis of 151 offenders who had completed the Family Man course across nine different prison between 2005 and 2013

The 151 participants do experience a reduction in frequency of re‐offending by  0.31 offences per individual.

However, due to sample size there is insufficient evidence at this stage to draw a conclusion about the impact of Family Man Programme run by Safe Ground on the one year  proven re‐offending rate.

To assess changes in students’ and supporters’ perceptions of their family relationships and of themselves

To assess the cost-effectiveness of the programme

To assess the impact of the programme on reoffending

To assess the effectiveness of the Family Support Worker (FSW) pilot role for prisoners, their children, families and supporters

Quantitative data based on the characteristics of 928 service users (SUs) and qualitative data based on 128

Qualitative interviews gained from FSWs, relevant prison staff, other involved professionals, prisoners, their families and supporters, to test the extent of the potential of the FSW role and to inform the framework for a possible national model

24 students claimed they had noticed a general improvement in their family relationships and 5 reported that they felt closer to their partner or wife

A Ministry of Justice Data Lab study suggested that Family Man programme has a positive impact on reducing reoffending by between 3 and 19 percentage points

To assess the impact of Family Man on re-offending

Quantitative statistical analysis of 131 offenders who had completed the Family Man course across six different prison between 2005 and 2011

One year proven re-offending rate for 131 offenders (those of the 164 who had an identifiable custodial sentence with a release date before 2012) attending the Family Man programme was 37%, compared with 44% for a matched control group of similar offenders (P= 0.05)

Statistical significance testing shows that individuals attending Family Man experienced a real reduction in the frequency of re-offending of 0.33 offences per individual

To evaluate the effectiveness of the Man Up Development Project in Isis, Glen Parva and Littlehey prisons

Questionnaires distributed to participants across all three prisons to assess attitudinal changes

There was an average 86% completion rate

All groups reported improved wellbeing scores

There was overall positive attitudinal change

• There was a statistically significant positive attitudinal change in participants in relation to perceptions of and reaction to ‘alpha’ male behaviour, as well as substantial positive shifts in attitudes to aggression and towards gender equality in the role of the ‘provider’

All of the custody-based groups rated the programme above 7 / 10 in terms of considering it an effective challenge to offending behaviour

To assess the impact of Family Man on re-offending

Quantitative statistical analysis of 83 offenders who had completed the Family Man course whilst in 6 different prison between 2005 and 2011

One year proven re-offending rate for 83 offenders attending the Family Man programme was 39%, compared with 47% for a matched control group of similar offenders.

Statistical significance testing has shown that this difference in the re-offending rates is not statistically significant suggesting that at this stage there is insufficient evidence to draw a conclusion about the impact of the Family Man programme on re-offending.

This paper seeks to contribute towards the success of Coalition reforms seeking to improve prisoner rehabilitation by setting out the current challenges facing sentences in the community, and presenting ideas on how to make them more effective at reducing reoffending.

Featured as a model example of a charity which focuses on families as key to offender rehabilitation (page 43)

This paper describes best practice in commissioning and service provision and our recommendations for the future in reference to dealing with family interventions and parental learning landscapes for offenders and their families

Featured as an example of a charity which runs intensive courses intended to move offender attitudes towards a more pro-social and empathetic way of relating to others in order to change offender behaviour (page 20)

Featured as an example of a charity that runs in-house family intervention programmes to help reduce re-offending (page 39)

This report reviews policies and programmes that promote or facilitate the involvement of fathers and father-figures from the pre-natal period through the first eight years of their children‘s lives; and to establish evidence of these programmes‘ potential to impact on family violence, child abuse or children‘s health or learning outcomes

Featured as an example of a charity that runs programmes specifically for father-child relationships, as many offenders are relatively young and have young children. The only prison based programmes to be included (page 37)

This report summarises the results of a survey prepared by Prisoners Education Trust and distributed in the November 2011 edition of the prison newspaper Inside Time.

The aim of this survey was to better understand the experience of prisoner learners by giving them a voice and the affect change to better meet the needs of prisoner learners.

Featured as an example of a charity that run family/relationship based courses (page 23)

Through an evaluation of a study of six young father’s experience of service provision, this report reveals the blockages that can occur when insufficient support is available to young fathers, and the opportunities that arise when services respond to young fathers effectively.

Featured as an example of work that reduces the risk of offending and reoffending (page 26)

Featured as an example of how Safe Ground helped a young father through his sentence plan (page 28)

Report evaluating the effectiveness of using a shared measurement approach (capturing the experience of people visiting prison and measuring changes to family relationships) when measuring family relationships in the prison sector

Featured as an example of a charity that meets the necessary criteria for participation in the project that evaluated the shared measurement approach (page 14)

Featured as a charity that facilitates “The theory of change in action” (page 16)

Took part in piloting a questionnaire developed by the project at HMP Belmarsh (page 21)