The Myth of Measurement

Inspection, audit, targets and the public sector

AvNick Frost

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

In the public sector inspection regimes and performance targets provide a powerful and dominant narrative, often placing pressure on professionals and organisations to continuously quantify the quality of services and to achieve targets.

This book explores the background, development, techniques and impact of such regimes across areas of the public sector including schools, universities, police forces, children’s services and health services. Putting inspection and audit regimes under scrutiny, the author questions their role and function across these organisations and builds a persuasive critical argument for the re-thinking of public accountability mechanisms and techniques.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-09-02
Mått:148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:290 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SAGE Swifts
Antal sidor:128
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9781529732665

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Nick Frost is Emeritus Professor at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He was a local authority social worker and an adult educator, before joining Leeds Beckett University in 2009. Nick has over a decade of experience as Chair of three different Local Safeguarding Children Boards. He has addressed conferences on child welfare issues in many countries and acted as a consultant to a number of governments and voluntary organisations. Nick has produced over 20 books including, most recently, of Safeguarding Children and Young People (Sage, 2021).

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Measuring everything in the public sectorChapter 2: Assessing quality in universities: measuring teaching and researchChapter 3: Targets and transparency in the NHS: promoting patient choice through the audit cultureChapter 4: Schools and the role of Ofsted: ′you could hear the sound of staple guns in the corridors from dawn to dusk!′Chapter 5: Children′s social care: measuring the immeasurableChapter 6: Crime and policing: holding the police accountableChapter 7: Rethinking the audit culture: towards an alternative