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Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care
Helplines providing advice and support to the families of people in prison - including the Prisoners' Families Helpline
Prescoed is a men’s open prison and young offender institution (YOI) in the village of Coed-y-Paen, South Wales. It is managed jointly with Usk Prison.
Visiting a prisoner: visiting times, keeping in touch by email, telephone or letter, banned items and sending money to a prisoner by debit card or online bank transfer
Guidance for people with symptoms of a respiratory infection including COVID-19, or a positive test result for COVID-19.
Apply to act for someone in court - litigation friends for children and people who cannot act for themselves because they lack the mental capacity
Frankland is a high-security men’s prison in Brasside, County Durham.
Isis is a men’s prison and young offender institution (YOI) in Thamesmead, South East London. It is named Isis after the ancient name for the River Thames.
Usk is a men’s prison in the town of Usk, South Wales. It is managed jointly with Prescoed Prison.
Bullingdon is a men’s prison near Bicester in Oxfordshire.
Your responsibilities as litigation friend of a child with money in a Court Funds Office account - update details, statements, tax vouchers, payments
Find out how to get help if you or someone you know is a victim of domestic abuse.
Rochester is a prison and young offender institution for men over 18 in Rochester, Kent.
Kirkham is a men’s open prison in the village of Kirkham, Lancashire.
Onley Prison is a men’s prison in Rugby, Warwickshire.
This guide provides information about being arrested in Turkey and what conditions are like in prison there.
Register as a ‘trusted helper’ to manage tax online for a friend or relative, or call HMRC for someone else
Dartmoor is a men’s prison in Devon.
Wormwood Scrubs is a men’s prison in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, West London.
The Verne is a prison on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, for men convicted of a sex offence.
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