Asghar Zaidi, Ann Harding and Paul Williamson
Ashgate
Paperback
368
Professional discretion has re-emerged as an issue of central importance in social work 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 managerialism: the domination model, the street level model and the author's alternative discursive perspective . These different regimes of discretion are developed 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.
Ashgate
Paperback
368
Professional discretion has re-emerged as an issue of central importance in social work 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 managerialism: the domination model, the street level model and the author's alternative discursive perspective . These different regimes of discretion are developed 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.