Duncan O'Leary
Duncan works on projects looking at public services, skills and work.
A while back I wrote a fairly unformed blog post about the relationship between professionalism and public service reform, suggesting that reformers should learn to draw on what it means to be a professional in Knowsley or in Essex.
Well, after some more research and a case study of some fascinating work going on in Bexley, i have an aticle in Society Guardian that develops that idea further.
Local professionalism is more than localism - it sees professionals not just responding to locally set targets, but being involved in the process of assessing need, and negotiating targets themselves. Managerialism, whether decentralised or not, is replaced by an approach that deliberately blurs the boundaries between policy makers and professionals.
By drawing heavily on what it means to be a professional on Merseyside or in Essex, new ways of working are beginning to emerge because of professionals, rather than in spite of them.
The full article is here anyway – let us know what you think...
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