Professional Discretion in Welfare Services

Beyond Street-Level Bureaucracy
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-25601-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 313 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

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.