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Working with Older Prisoners

The Nacro and Department of Health Working with Older Prisoners pack was created so that peer support workers, disability liaison officers, older offender and wing officers could use its contents to implement good practice ideas and set up activities in their establishments for older prisoners. It is also intended to act as a useful reference on different organisations to encourage prison workers to contact other agencies for information and improve the quality of their information, advice and guidance service for older prisoners. The pack should also be used to raise awareness among colleagues of the health problems the older prisoner population is prone to and of some of the practical things they can do to make their lives easier.

Each pack consists of a Resource Pack full of information, a Workshop Pack, which will show readers how to run awareness sessions on the issues facing older prisoners and four identical resources and activities discs, packed full of leaflets from well known organisations who have an interest in this population.

Further copies of the pack can be ordered from the Nacro website for £65

For further information please send an email to Ann Singer

• Download resource pack (PDF, 1976K)
• Download workshop pack (PDF, 2587K)
• Email Ann Singer: ann.singer@dh.gsi.gov.uk (opens new window)
• Nacro website (opens new window)