HMP Kirkham

Switchboard: 01772 675400

Safer Custody Helpline

If you have any safeguarding concerns for residents in our care, please contact the Safer Community Helpline on 0800 5280 248.

Safer Custody Kirkham email address: safercustodykirkham@justice.gov.uk

Prisoners’ Families Helpline

Prisoners’ Families Helpline: 0808 808 2003

Visiting

Domestic visitors’ identification:

You may use any one form of ID from List A. If you are unable to do this, you can use one document from List B and one form of ID from List C.

  1. List A
    • passports
    • identity cards from an EU or European Economic Area (EEA) country
    • UK photocard driving licences
    • EU or EEA driving licences
    • NI Electoral identity cards
    • a US passport card
    • a proof of age card recognised under PASS with a unique reference number (This includes the Citizen ID card)
    • an armed forces identity card
    • a UK biometric residence permit (BRP)
  2. List B
    One form of ID from this list, together with list C.
    • a Home Office travel document (convention travel document, stateless person’s document, one-way document or certificate of travel)
    • an older person’s bus pass
    • a Freedom Pass
    • a proof of age card recognised under the Proof of Age Standards Scheme (PASS) without a unique reference number (please refer to List A where a unique reference number is present)
  3. List C
    One form of ID from this list, together with list B.
    • a birth or adoption certificate
    • an education certificate from a regulated and recognised educational institution (such as an NVQ, SQA, GCSE, A level or degree certificate)
    • a rental or purchase agreement for a residential property (signed and dated)
    • a marriage or civil partnership certificate
    • a bank, building society or credit union current account card (on which the claimed identity is shown)

Booking a visit – legal/officials only

Email: legalvisits.kirkham@justice.gov.uk

More information

To visit someone in Kirkham you must be on a person’s visit list, book at least 24 hours in advance and have the required ID.