Crime and reducing re-offending


Evaluation of the New Deal for Communities Police Team

Evaluation and impact assessment of the New Deal for Communities Police Team and their Flexible Interventions Fund and Anti-Social Behaviour Coordinator

Evaluation of the Family Intervention Project

Evaluation and impact assessment of the Safe Newcastle Family Intervention Project

Evaluation of the Prisoner Post Release Project

Evaluation, review and impact assessment of the Prisoner Post Release Project, a parenting support project for returning prisoners and their families

Integrated Offender Management

Case studies of the IOM five pilot sites across England

Review of Stay Safe

Review of Stay Safe’s first phase of operations – part of the Youth Crime Action Plan in Newcastle and an initiative to tackle youth disorder

Chair of the Children and Families Pathway

Chair of the NOMS North East Reducing Re-offending Children and Families Pathway

Evaluation of the Safe Project

Evaluation, review and impact assessment of the Ne Deal for Communities’ domestic violence project

Review of Safe Neighbourhoods

Review of the progress of the first phase of Safe Neighbourhoods in Newcastle, the local multi-agency problem solving groups

Neon: the North East Offender Network

Development and coordination of Neon – a voluntary and community sector network of agencies who work with (ex) offenders and their families across the north east

Research with hard to reach groups, 2007 to 2010

Focus groups with hard to reach groups about crime and community safety

CLIENT FEEDBACK

"Barefoot did a fantatsic job of our evaluation. In particular, their approach to working with our service users was very impressive. The evaluation has answered many of our questions, but also asked us more, which gives us a great opportunity for the future."

Jayne Butler, Manager, The Comfrey Project

"As an organisation we felt that Barefoot did an excellent job of listening and understanding the needs of our review... We were thrilled with the final report; as well as being a very good read, the presentation and quality was excellent."

Cath Carnaby, Manager, Women's Health Advice Centre


"I am pleased with the honesty and thoroughness with which he (Christopher) dealt with the project. Thanks to the evaluation we now have a number of questions answered and a clear way forward."

Maureen Pearson, Area manager North East, Parentline Plus