A peer-led Visitor Council held regular meetings with the senior management team in the visitor’s centre of HMP Birmingham throughout 2022.

The purpose of the Council was to support the friends and family of prisoners in HMP Birmingham with any issues they faced with prison visits, so that they could be addressed and solutions sought and agreed.

This review reflects on the service, and assesses the impact of the Council on visitors, prisoners and prison staff.

Published in February 2023 by the New Leaf Initiative.