Welfare benefits, where to go for free financial advice etc. Support is offered throughout the ordeal and can continue after the release from prison of the family member or friend. The rehabilitation and rebuilding of family life can be a difficult time. Referrals Posters are displayed in the Magistrates and Crown Courts, all Custody Police Stations, probation Offices, several Prisons. Leaflets are given to every new prisoner at Shrewsbury prison in their induction packs plus placed on the different prison wings.
Leaflets are in many prison visits centres.
To provide a telephone helpline for relatives and friends of Prisoners. We desperately need your funds. Telephone the helpline for more information about how you can give to this important cause. S HARP's organiser is at present on a steering group put together by the Federation to produce a 'Code of good Practice guide' for support groups. This will have to be agreed to by all members of the Federation.