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Professional Discretion in Welfare Services

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Professional Discretion in Welfare Services

By Tony Evans

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About the book

Discretion has re-emerged as an issue of central importance for welfare professionals 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 the managerial role - the domination model, the street level model and the author's alternative discursive perspective. These different regimes of discretion are examined through a case study within a soc...Show more

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9781138256019

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2016

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1

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Professional Discretion in Welfare Services

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Paperback

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