Duncan O'Leary
Duncan works on projects looking at public services, skills and work.
"professionalism"
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- From strategy to reality In The Leadership Imperative, published by Demos last year, Hannah Lownsbrough and I argued that: "The danger for Every Child Matters…lies not in an outright rejection from the people being asked to deliver it, but in the day-today difficulties of making it work on the ground. Entrenched patterns of professional behaviour lead to scepticism and distrust of the capabilities of professionals from other backgrounds..." from : duncanoleary 25th July 2006
- Local professionalism I’ve been doing a bit of reading for a new project that we are starting with the IDeA, looking at how efforts in local authorities to re-orient services around the needs of users are disrupting professional boundaries, roles and status, and am struck by the suggestion that John Craig makes in Production Values that we may be witnessing the birth of local professionalism. from : duncanoleary 2nd August 2006
- You heard it here first A while back I wrote a fairly unformed 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 facinating work going on in Bexley, i have an aticle in Society Guardian that develops that idea further. from : duncanoleary 20th September 2006