Fathers at a men’s prison in Bridgend have been able to keep track of how their children are doing at school through a parent-teacher evenings scheme. Inmates at HMP Parc, the only privately operated prison in Wales, attend six meetings a year with their family and their children’s teachers in the visiting hall.
One teacher involved in the scheme said the meetings were “often quite emotional, especially when the children produce work they have done and show it to their fathers”.
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