Publications
These selected publications reflect the participative, inquiring approach that underpins our consultancy.

The Climbié Inquiry: what being mindful really means in practice? childRIGHT, March 2003, 194, pp. 3-4. Click here to download.

No Time to Think: Protecting the Reflective Space in Children's Services. Child Abuse Review, 2003, 12, pp. 101-106 (with Les Gallop). Click here to download.

'Neglect and its impact on child welfare' in M.J. Bannon and Y.H. Carter (Eds.) Protecting Children from Abuse and Neglect in Primary Care, 2003, Oxford: Oxford University Press, General Practice Series, pp. 72-82 (with Anna Gupta). Click here to view more information.

Research Reports
Report of a Multi-Agency Action Research Project to Improve Service Delivery to Families with Complex Needs, 2003, Nottingham: University of Nottingham (with Dr Jill Treseder and Sara Glennie). Click here to download.

Report of an Action Research Project to Improve the Quality of Family Placement Assessments, 2004, Leicester: Mindful Practice Ltd. Click here to download.

Case Study summary of the Family Placement Assessment Project from The Improvement of Public Sector Delivery: Supporting Evidence Based Practice Through Action Research. 2005, Edinburgh: Scottish Executive (Dr Cathy Sharp). Click here to view more information.

What do we Measure and Why? An Evaluation of the Citistat Model of Performance Management and its Applicability to the Scottish Public Sector, 2006, Edinburgh: Scottish Executive (with Dr Cathy Sharp and Alison M. Smith) Click here to view more information.

What really matters in integrated working? Report of a qualitative evaluation of a 'Team around
the Child' ISA Trailblaze
r, an integrated working initiative under the Every Child Matters:
Change for Children
agenda to transform children's services. By Jocelyn Jones, January 2007.
Click here to download.

Successful strategies: real learning from real experience. By Cathy Sharp, Mark Bitel and Jocelyn Jones, July 2007. Click here to download.

Report of an Every Child Matters cultural change project. How are we discovering the common ground . . . and then building bridges? By Jocelyn Jones and Cathy Sharp, October 2007. Click here to download.


Conference papers & workshops
'Respect and relationship: creating safe spaces to explore attachment, grief and loss'. Paper presentation and extended workshop at the Action Learning, Action Research and Process Management (ALARPM) 7th and Participative Action Research (PAR) 11th World Congress on Participatory Research, Standards and Ethics, Groningen, The Netherlands, August 2006. Click here to download.