Advice Services
Category: Working with Prisoners, their Families and Children
NIACRO, in partnership with the Probation Service, provides a specialist advice service geared to the particular needs of people in contact with the criminal justice system.
NIACRO’s Advice Service is unique. It is the only service offering advice and support right across Northern Ireland to prisoners’ families, and released prisoners and offenders in the community. We provide information, advice and representation on subjects like benefits, housing and debt.
Our aim is to provide accurate, up-to-date and relevant advice which will help prisoners and their families receive the benefits they are entitled to, and which will help them break the cycle of debt, dependency and poverty through employment.
The Advice Service helps people from all of NIACRO’s projects. This includes people in prison, or who have just left prison, their families, young people at risk, people who are homeless or who are in difficulties in their communities because of their behaviour etc.
In the last year the service dealt with 2576 enquiries from 878 service users both in the prisons and in the community.
If you think the Advice Service could help you or your clients:
Contact Details
Barry McMullan
barry@niacro.co.uk
Belfast Tel 028 90 320157
Claire McGonagle clare@niacro.co.uk
L/Derry 028 7126 4555