What is it about?
FLiP (Family Literacy in Prisons) is a programme based on the ORIM (Opportunities, Interaction, Recognition, Model) Framework. It has been designed and developed with Pact (Prison Advice and Care Trust) and is run in prisons in England and Wales. It introduces imprisoned parents to ideas of how to support their young child's literacy development through parent workshops and family literacy events. The paper reports the evaluation of the first FLiP programmes.
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Why is it important?
Our study shows how imprisoned fathers can be supported in learning more about their young child's literacy development. Importantly, it highlights the importance of family visits to promote literacy and as a meaningful opportunity for imprisoned fathers to connect with their children through literacy activities.
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This paper, and the project it reports, represents an important collaboration between us at the University of Sheffield, and Pact (Prison Advice and Care Trust). It shows how the ORIM Framework, used in many family literacy initiatives around the UK and beyond, could be successfully adapted for work in prison contexts. Collaboration was at the heart of this project, and still is. We designed and developed the FLiP programme together and wrote the paper together; it's great to see FLiP now being offered to parents in many prisons across the country.
Cathy Nutbrown
The University of Sheffield
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This page is a summary of: Family literacy in prisons: fathers’ engagement with their young children, Research Papers in Education, November 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02671522.2017.1402085.
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