Launching new guide to enabling creativity during Covid-19
Our new guide for prison staff, Creativity in a restricted regime, is now available to read and download.
Access to creative activity is essential for the wellbeing of people in prison, but understanding how to make it possible in the face of Covid-19 restrictions has been a challenge. This guide gives recommendations on how those working in prisons can achieve this, in collaboration with education providers, artists and arts organisations – as restrictions ease and prison regimes begin to change.
The guide has been produced on behalf of the Arts Forum, which aims to strengthen partnership working between the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance and the Ministry of Justice, Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and other government departments. The guide includes tips around how creativity can be adapted to different stages of restrictions, examples of arts activities taking place during the pandemic, and suggested approaches prison staff might take to enabling arts activity in prisons.
“The evidence is clear: creative activity in prisons makes a difference, and in my view is a need-to-do, not a nice-to-do.” - Ralph Lubkowski, Governor of HMP Hewell
Read the guide here
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