Professional Authority
Personalisation and workforce change
A project with IDeA looking at how efforts to re-orient services around the needs of users are disrupting professional boundaries, roles and status.
- Professional matters Reading the special Every Child Matters pull-out in Society Guardian yesterday one quote really stood out from the page. It was a headteacher who said ‘Every Child Matters is everything that we’ve ever believed in’. First, it reminded me what an achievement it was to put together a peice of legislation that has generated such widespread support. And second, i think it is enormously revealing about the challenges of implementing the ideas behind the leglislation. continue reading on 12th October 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. continue reading on 20th September 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. continue reading on 2nd August 2006
- 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..." continue reading on 25th July 2006
- Get involved! Welcome to the project blog for this project. During the project i will be posting some thoughts up here and bookmarking some of the interesting things that i read during the project here. Leave a comment or drop me an email if there's some research you think i should be reading or a potential case study that i should be visiting... continue reading on 25th July 2006