Time for Families runs education programmes for those who find their relationships with their partners, their parenting skills and their family budgets adversely affected by their custodial sentences. The courses give hope to prisoners and a future of stability to their families on release. 

Why do we do what we do?
Extensive multiple research projects have concluded that relationship breakdown causes short and long term emotional, social and financial damage to adults, children and the structure of society as a whole. We have a unique opportunity to access a group in society with great and growing needs.

Why Offenders and their Families?
Time for Families has a commitment to working with prisoners and their families who may be at particular risk from relationship breakdown due to separation and long periods of absence and/or trauma of imprisonment on the family as a whole.

Relationship Skills as a Key to Future Stability
Relationship skills can provide a key to reintegration into family and community life on release from prison.  Stable relationships provide a buffer against re-offending.

Political Perspectives
"Strong and understanding relationships between prisoners and their families are the foundations on which the Prison Service, and all the agencies involved with prisoners after their release, can help prisoners build their ambitions for a law-abiding life."
Hilary Benn MP - HMP Wandsworth - January, 2003

"The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country" (Winston Churchill)

Prisons we have worked in since January 1st 2008
Brixton, Downview, Durham, Exeter, High Down, Pentonville, Stanford Hill, Wandsworth, Wetherby, Wolds, Wormwood Scrubs.  Plans are in hand to hopefully work in Rye Hill, New Hall and Altcourse.