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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

• Letters, video and telephone calls

  Letters You can contact a prisoner by writing to them. Write the person’s…

• Email and social media

  Prisoners are not allowed to access social networking websites (such as…

• Banned items

  You must not send or give anything to a prisoner that: is indecent or…

• Sending money

  You can send money to someone in prison by making an online payment by…

• Visiting someone in prison

  You can make an online request to visit someone in prison in most cases.…

• Updated: 1 January 2015

How to get in touch with DASA for advice and guidance

• Updated: 8 October 2025

Signs that may suggest rabies in bats, what to do if you spot them and measures to prevent exposing yourself to the disease.

• Updated: 12 September 2025

Guidance for employees and employers: employment rights when on maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal care or parental bereavement leave - keeping in touch days, annual leave, returning to work, redundancy.

Information on cryptosporidium including sources and routes of transmission, symptoms, and general hygiene advice to minimise the spread.

• Updated: 1 November 2023

Knowledge and Library Services (KLS) support knowledge management at UKHSA by providing resources, tools and expertise to help seek, share and use knowledge.

• Updated: 28 July 2025

Information on C. auris, how it can spread, how patients are tested and treated, and what people who are carrying it can do to help prevent spreading it.

• Updated: 20 October 2025

Lassa virus causes Lassa fever, an acute viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF).

• Updated: 11 July 2025

Guidance for individuals who have been bitten by a bat, in the UK or overseas.

• Updated: 12 November 2024