Public Health Award
Partners Make Every Opportunity Count And Win Top Public Health Award We are delighted to announce that innovative work by NHS Grampian, Action for Children, and Families Outside to help improve the health and wellbeing of children and families affected by imprisonment has won the Elizabeth Russell prize. Presented each year at the Scottish Faculty […]
Daughter’s shock when her mother was jailed
Daughter speaks of the shock when her mother was jailed for four years… The daughter of a Dunfermline woman who is serving a four-year prison term said “it’s like you have been given your own sentence”. The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Press about the shock when she discovered her mother had […]
Kaye Adams Show – Vox Liminis
Throughout 2014 Families Outside, in partnership with Vox Liminis and HMP Addiewell, provided singing and music making courses, each comprising of workshops which brought together imprisoned fathers (or other close family members), children, and carers. Using a family learning approach, the courses was participatory and gave families an opportunity to create, perform, and record music. […]
Families Left Behind
Families Outside in partnership with Fife Council’s Adult Basic Education and Family Community Support Team, brought together four women who were affected by imprisonment or the criminal justice system. After conversation, the women felt that their own experiences could help others in this situation and so we met as a group once a week for […]
Prisoners Week
Remember me….. Prisoners Week, 20-27 November 2016 Prisoners Week is an initiative of the Churches that aims to stimulate discussion, highlight concerns and share hope, in prisons and communities across Scotland. It takes place in the third week of November. You are warmly invited to the ecumenical National Launch Service for Prisoners Week at 18.30 […]