Doing Probation Work

Mawby, Rob C.; Worrall, Anne

doi:10.4324/9780203107409

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“…In addition, social services departments have used the existing professional hierarchy to implement managerialism rather than establishing a new management cadre (Ackroyd et al, 2007). This is similar to the case of probation (Mawby and Worrall, 2013) prior to the restructuring/outsourcing discussed here.…”

Section: Public Service Professionals In Context Of Restructuring Prsupporting

confidence: 77%

When Welfare Professionals Encounter Restructuring and Privatization: The Inside Story of the Probation Service of England and Wales

Kirton

Guillaume

2019

Work, Employment and Society

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This article utilizes a multi-method case study of the probation service of England and Wales to explore the perspectives of practitioners and their union on how restructuring/privatization affected the probation profession. Professionals perceived restructuring/privatization as ideologically and politically motivated, rather than evidence-based in relation to service goals. Against this context, the article outlines the probation union’s organized resistance, but ultimately its inability to halt the reform. The findings highlight practitioners’ concept of ‘the death of probation’ created by philosophical opposition to privatization, but also by the splitting of their profession and the resultant assault on professionalism. The study underlines the unique aspects of restructuring/privatization in the specific service domain, in particular those linked to working with a socially stigmatized client group, but it also has resonance for other public service professions facing the actuality or prospect of restructuring/privatization.

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Section: Public Service Professionals In Context Of Restructuring Prsupporting

confidence: 77%

When Welfare Professionals Encounter Restructuring and Privatization: The Inside Story of the Probation Service of England and Wales

Kirton

Guillaume

2019

Work, Employment and Society

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“…These respondents have unique understanding of practice over a lengthy period and are able to explain how they have been personally affected as family law solicitors. Although the study was based on a small sample, the emergent identities identified here (innovator, compelled and traditionalist) may be generalisable as similar groupings have been observed in other occupations experiencing structural change, such as healthcare (Waring & Bishop, 2011) and probation (Mawby & Worrall, 2013).…”

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confidence: 59%

“…Qualitative data was sought to give voice to practitioners and to discover how they make sense of any changes they have experienced (Ambert, Adler & Detzner, 1995, p.880). Studies of occupations experiencing change have also chosen to analyse qualitative data, such as healthcare (Waring & Bishop, 2011) and probation (Mawby & Worrall, 2013).…”

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Willingness to innovate in family law solicitor practice in England and Wales: a qualitative study

Russell

2019

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

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This paper analyses interview data from 24 long-qualified family law solicitors working in private practice traditional settings in the Midlands and North of England. Experiences and perceptions of change are explored in order to contribute to contemporary understandings of practitioner willingness to innovate in the new legal services landscape, particularly as family law solicitors have been called upon to adopt new practices such as unbundling to survive (Resolution, 2018). Three ntities are identified amongst the sample respondents. These are linked to attachment to traditional role orientations, values and boundaries, as well as practice settings and perception of opportunities and threats.

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“…It is important to state that TR is the latest in a series of structural reforms that probation had undergone since the early 1990s. The earlier reforms are discussed elsewhere and are not rehearsed in detail here (Gale, 2012;Mawby and Worrall, 2013). Suffice it to say, that bearing the hallmark of Taylorism, they had a cumulatively negative impact on work and working conditions (Gale, 2012;Kirton, 2015).…”

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“…At the time of the fieldwork, practitioners typically worked in open plan spaces of varying sizes, which could be quite noisy with a lack of privacy-telephone calls with offenders occurred in the open plan space, although there were small rooms for face-to-face supervision. On the plus side, there was usually a staff kitchen, which was an important space where practitioners interacted informally, talked about professional problems, etc., thereby relieving some of the stress inherent to the job (Mawby and Worrall, 2013): I can't tell you how difficult it is doing some of the things we have to do in our job. Being able to get support from your colleagues … and even just the feeling of they know what I'm going through because they have to do it too, that helps.…”

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Work, employment and engagement conditions in a female‐dominated public service occupation after restructuring/outsourcing

Kirton

Guillaume

2017

Industrial Relations Journal

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Most research on the phenomenon of public service restructuring/outsourcing focuses on lower skilled work in peripheral activities and typically provides an overview of effects on work, employment and employment relations. Through an in‐depth case study of probation, the intention of this article is to explore professional worker experiences of the restructuring/outsourcing of a core public service activity where the workforce is female dominated. The article highlights three dimensions of job quality that all suffered deterioration—work, employment and engagement. The case of probation adds to evidence demonstrating that employees experience adverse effects even though transfer regulations and union agreements supposedly protect workers. Probation also stands as an exemplar of impoverishment processes in a female‐dominated occupation which reinforces the view that public services can no longer be relied upon to provide high‐quality jobs for highly qualified women.

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Doing Probation Work

Cited by 94 publications

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When Welfare Professionals Encounter Restructuring and Privatization: The Inside Story of the Probation Service of England and Wales

When Welfare Professionals Encounter Restructuring and Privatization: The Inside Story of the Probation Service of England and Wales

Willingness to innovate in family law solicitor practice in England and Wales: a qualitative study

Work, employment and engagement conditions in a female‐dominated public service occupation after restructuring/outsourcing

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