Professional Discretion in Welfare Services

Beyond Street-Level Bureaucracy

Tony Evans (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-25601-9 (ISBN)

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Discretion has re-emerged as an issue of central importance for welfare professionals over the last two decades in the face of an intensification of management culture across the public sector. This book presents an innovative framework for the analysis of discretion, offering three accounts of the managerial role - the domination model, the street level model and the author's alternative discursive perspective. These different regimes of discretion are examined through a case study within a social services department, comparing and contrasting social work discretion in an Older Persons Team and a Mental Health Team. This innovative, theoretical and empirical analysis will be of great interest to postgraduate students and researchers in social work and related disciplines including social policy, public administration and organizational studies, as well as professionals in social work, health and education.

Tony Evans (CQSW, PQSW, BA, MA, MSc, PhD) Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He has previously taught at the University of York, Oxford Brookes University, and the University of Southampton. Before going into academic life, he practised as a social worker in mental health and community care and subsequently in forensic social work in the health service.

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Street-Level Bureaucracy Perspective and Discretion; Chapter 2 Social Services–Street-Level Bureaucracies?; Chapter 3 Management and Professionals; Chapter 4 Researching Discretion; Chapter 5 ‘Managers’–Are They All the Same?; Chapter 6 Senior Managers and the Remote Control of Practice; Chapter 7 Local Managers and Practitioners; Chapter 101 Conclusion; Chapter 102 Appendix;

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-138-25601-3 / 1138256013
ISBN-13	978-1-138-25601-9 / 9781138256019
Zustand	Neuware