Barefoot Research and Evaluation has produced the following:
Evaluation briefings
- Evaluation briefing of the NEPACS prison based family support project 2013 and 2016
- Evaluation of Blyth CAB and Homes for Northumberland Tenants Debt Advice Service
- Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Training
- Science Families – a project of the Northern Learning Trust
- Prisoner Family Support Project
- BU Mental Health Diploma – a project of Children North East
- Support for Women Around Northumberland, November 2011
- Women’s Health Advice Centre, 2008 to 2011
Evaluations
- Evaluations of Fair Share in East Ashington and Seaton Valley. Full reports: East Ashington and Seaton Valley. Summaries: East Ashington and Seaton Valley.
- Evaluation of the SWAN project, a diverting women from custody project: summary and full report
- A review of the Women’s Health Advice Centre in Ashington, NorthumberlandEvaluation of the Comfrey Project
- Evaluation of the Challenge Project (an adult literacy and numeracy project in Tyne and Wear)
- Evaluation of the Care to Read literacy project for looked-after-children
- Participatory evaluation of the Inspire public art programme in South East Northumberland
Research reports
Studies of sexual exploitation and sex markets across the North East and Cumbria can be read here:
- Child Sexual Exploitation in the North East and Cumbria
- Selling sex for survival: adult sexual exploitation and prostitution in the North East and Cumbria
- Sex markets in Teesside
- Child sexual exploitation in Teesside and a review of Barnardo’s child ISVA service
- Sex markets and sexual exploitation in County Durham
- Sex markets and sexual exploitation in Cumbria
- Sex markets and sexual exploitation in Darlington
- Sex markets and sexual exploitation in Northumberland and Tyne and Wear
You can also read the methodology paper here and a reflective paper here.
- Full Report: Keeping Prisoners and Their Families Together: A Review of Family and Social Support Within the North East Reducing Re-offending Action Plan
- Summary Report: Keeping Prisoners and Their Families Together: A Review of Family and Social Support Within the North East Reducing Re-offending Action Plan
- Research Study: Keeping Families Together: Maintaining Positive Relationships Between Children and Parents in Prison: A Study in the North East of England
- Inspire: A UK Participatory Public Art Evaluation
- Evaluation of the Second Chance Project (a prisoner resettlement project in HMP Holme House)
Needs assessments
- Needs Assessment for sexual violence services in Northumberland, 2014
- Northumberland Domestic Abuse Needs Assessment, 2013
- Young Adult Carers Needs Assessment in County Durham
Case studies and impact reports
- Northern Learning Trust
- Children North East
- Angelou Centre
- Helix Arts
- Gallery Youth
- Community campus87
- Barnardo’s Domestic Violence Protection Project
- A Way Out/Changing Lives
- The impact of the voluntary sector on reducing crime and reoffending, improving community safety and supporting victims: the Cleveland Force Area; the Durham Force Area; the Northumbria Force Area
- The appendix to the impact statements
Community safety consultation for Safe Newcastle
Guides/toolkits
- Working with the children and families of offenders – a guide for local authorities and partnerships
Academic papers
- Supporting children and families of prisoners in the North East: A case study of how the voluntary sector and research has driven the agenda
- Methodology paper: Knowledge Mapping & Working with Difficult to Reach Groups: Sex Work Knowledge in the City
Vulnerable, Violent and Hidden Lifescapes in the North East of England - Third World Development, Loss of Entitlements and Community Safety
- Rethinking Environment and Development in Africa and Asia
- Twenty Years of Resolving the Irresolvable: Approaches to the Fuelwood Problem in Kenya
- Gardening to Reduce Hazard: Urban Agriculture in Tanzania
- Farmers do it Better: Local Management of Change in Burkina Faso
- Notes on Participatory Development