New child-friendly resources on sibling contact

Date: 9th February 2024
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care
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Families Outside has produced child friendly resources to help care-experienced children and young people who have a sibling in prison to know - and access - their rights to sibling contact.

According to the Staying Connected project carried out by Families Outside and the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA), many Care-Experienced children and young people do not know their rights to keep in touch with their siblings in prison. This meant that they weren't always accessing the support that was available, because they didn't know they were entitled to it.

Families Outside has also produced rights resources for young people in prison and secure care who wish to know their rights to keep in touch with their siblings on the outside.

• Check out their sibling rights resource here.
• Check out their resource for young people in prison here.
• Check out their resource for young people in secure care.