9.3 Care of Children

The manual questionnaire asked inmates with any children (i.e., including both those who had, and did not have, custodial care of the child prior to imprisonment) to identify where / in whose care their dependent children were while the inmate was in prison. The table below summarises the responses

Table 9-3 Care of sentenced inmates’ children

Caregiver	Female		Male		Total
Caregiver	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
Partner / ex-partner	36	21.3%	1781	78.6%	1817	74.6%
Immediate family	66	39.1%	189	8.3%	255	10.5%
Wider family/whanau/in-laws	30	17.8%	90	4.0%	120	4.95
Foster care (CYF, etc)	13	7.7%	39	1.7%	52	2.1%
“Don't know”	2	1.2%	40	1.8%	42	1.7%
Other	22	13.0%	128	5.6%	150	6.2%
Total responses	169	100.0%	2267	100.0%	2436	100.0%

Percentages may not add to 100 because of rounding. This table shows the count of inmates whose children were under the care of the caregiver specified. It does not give a count of children. Genders shown refer to inmates’ gender.