Welcome to Our New Staff Member
We are very pleased to welcome Karen Armstrong to our team. With a background in children and families social work and helpline provision for those working with vulnerable adults, Karen will be working for one day per week on our dedicated Support & Information Helpline.
Santa’s Good List Was Long This Year!
In the run up to the Christmas, Families Outside was delighted to receive our largest donation of gifts yet from Greyfriars Church in Lanark. We were able to give these gifts to children of the families we support and to children visiting prisons for Christmas. Many thanks to the parishioners of Greyfriars Church for their […]
What Can Health Professionals Do?
Families Outside has produced a new booklet on the subject of health practitioners supporting prisoners’ families. What Can Health Professionals Do? is a booklet which offers information and guidance to health professionals so they can better support prisoners’ families and children. To view the booklet please click on the image. If you would like copies of the booklet, […]
Career Criminals?
An article entitled Career Criminals? written by our colleague, Sarah Roberts, was recently published in the January 2014 edition of Career Matters. In the article Sarah shares insights gained whilst undertaking a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship in Australia and the USA, looking at how advisers can support families affected by imprisonment. Careers advisers […]
Families Outside Change in Chairman
After four years at the helm of Families Outside, it is with great regret that we announce that Gillian Stewart has stood down as Chairman of our charity, having served the full tenure allowed by our constitution. Over the last seven years as a member of our Board (and latterly our Chairman), Gill has been a great […]
