Voices Unlocked

About Voices Unlocked

🎙️Voices Unlocked Podcast Breaking Silence. Breaking Stigma Supporting youth with incarcerated parents You are more than your story✨

Publisher

Voices Unlocked

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Mar 2026

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

27 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Voices Unlocked Ep. 27 | My Mum Was an Addict, so I Became the Parent

   By the age of five, Libby was already shielding her little sister from what the adults around them were doing. By 13, she was in foster care. In this episode of Voices Unlocked, Libby, the eldest sibling in a family whose story you've been following, opens up about her mum's addiction and years in and out of prison. Libby talks about running a household as a child, then going from no rules at all to having every move watched once she was in care. She shares how her girlfriend Emily and Emily...

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   12 Oct 2026

   Voices Unlocked Ep. 26 | I Kept My Mum's Prison Sentence Secret for 40 Years

   Kerry was 11 when her mum went to prison in the 1980s. There was no support and nobody to talk to, so she kept it to herself for most of her life. Two years ago she read a news article about children of prisoners, found Time Matters and kept emailing Lorna until she got a reply. Today she's one of their mentor volunteers. In this episode of Voices Unlocked, Kerry talks about the police raid on her house the morning after Pancake Tuesday, and about realising during her volunteer training that...

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   5 Oct 2026

   Voices Unlocked Ep. 25 | A Probation Chief Admits What the System Got Wrong

   Rosie joined the probation service in 1986 and retired in 2021 as one of Merseyside's assistant chief officers of probation. In this episode of Voices Unlocked, Lorna and Liv sit down with her to talk about what the system got wrong about children with a parent in prison, and what has changed since. Rosie remembers home visits where she walked straight past a child doing their homework to speak to their mum, because children weren't seen as probation's job. She explains how the research on A...

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