KIDS VIP organises seminar for prison directors and personnel

3rd October 2003

EUROCHIPS, in tandem with KIDS VIP in the U.K., organized a study day/seminar for prison directors and personnel from various European countries entitled “Maintaining family ties: Identifying training needs and methods,” on 2 October 2003 in Glasgow, Scotland The aim was to foster an exchange of ideas on maintaining family ties for prisoners’ children and to generate/discuss material for the purposes of drafting a EUROCHIPS document. The report, Prisoners’ Children and Family Ties: a Handbook of Practice and Experience, is to be presented at a European conference in Strasbourg in 2004.