KIDS VIPmember Eurochips since 2003

Kate PhilbrickEurochips board member and past president

Kids VIP and Eurochips

Kids VIP has been working to improve contact between children and their imprisoned parents since 1988.

Our focus is on working with others to ensure child visits to prison are as good as possible

Eurochips has enriched our work and given us the European perspective –hope we have contributed too .

The future

Kids Vip is aobut to merge with pact Kids VIP work will be taken on in England and Wales by pact– the Prison

Advice and Care Trust – is a charity which supports people affected by imprisonment. It provides practical support to prisoners' children and families, and to prisoners themselves. (they will be applying for membership of Eurochips)

in Scotland by Families Outside –just admitted to membership of Eurochips