Standardisation—the end of professional discretion?

Ponnert, Lina; Svensson, Kerstin

doi:10.1080/13691457.2015.1074551

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“…Utöver riskbedömningar har standardiserade bedömnings eller utred ningsinstrument kommit att bli allt vanligare (Ponnert & Svensson, 2016 Stranz, Vogel & Wiklund, 2015). Syftet med standardiserade utrednings och bedömningsmetoder, manu aler och liknande är att de professionella ska kunna fatta välgrundade beslut i sina ärenden och genom standardiseringen ska klienter få tillgång till likvär diga och kvalitetssäkrade insatser (Liljegren & Parding, 2010).…”

Section: Socialtjänsten New Public Management Och Riskhanteringunclassified

“…Herz (2012b) riktar också kritik mot att flertalet av de manualer och metoder som köps in och an vänds inom socialtjänsten i dag oftast baseras på individualistiska eller psyko logiska teorier, vilket riskerar att i förlängningen leda till att strukturella frågor negligeras eller glöms bort i det sociala arbetet. Standardisering inom social tjänsten kan tolkas som ett sätt att minska socialarbetares handlingsutrymme och därmed innebära en avprofessionalisering, men det kan också ses som en professionell strategi för att stärka professionen (Ponnert & Svensson, 2016).…”

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“…Specialisering kan ha flera innebörder (se till exempel Ponnert & Svensson, 2016). Det kan inne bära en utarmning av socialt arbete såtillvida att socialarbetarnas kompetens blir ytlig och att arbetet blir fragmenterat (a.a., se också Lauri, 2016).…”

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“…Däremot finns beskrivningar som går i linje med exempelvis Lauris resonemang. Utvecklingen inom socialtjänsten går mot ökade inslag av stan dardisering (Ponnert & Svensson, 2016). Det bidrar till ett ökat fokus på for mella utredningar, riskbedömningar och dokumentation.…”

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Det besvärliga våldet : Socialtjänstens stöd till kvinnor som utsatts för våld i nära relationer

Ekström¹

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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Det besvärliga våldet : Socialtjänstens stöd till kvinnor som utsatts för våld i nära relationer

Ekström¹

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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“…On the one hand, social services are seen as social contexts with high levels of ‘complexity’ (Stevens and Cox, ) which standard procedures or EBP cannot account for. In addition, the implementation of strict bureaucratic processes, in fact, generates insecurity about the kind of attention a client might need, leading to a feeling of deprofessionalisation and a depreciation of professional discretion (Ponnert and Svensson, ). Finally, implementing complex standard tools can cause disruption.…”

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Implementing a Point‐Based Rewards System as an Educational Tool in Children's Home: From Standardisation to Coconstruction and Negotiation

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Hall

2017

Children & Society

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From a wider educational ethnography, we analysed the implementation of a point‐based reward system as an educational tool in a Spanish children's home. This is examined within a policy and ideological framework strongly influenced by Evidence‐Based Practice, Standardization and New Public Management. The findings show, first, how this system relied on a balance between greater use of standard tools and the experience of the managers; second, how, in practice, basic procedures regarding the system's rigour and objectivity were altered; and third, how the ratings given to evaluate children were very often coconstructed and influenced by broader individual, social and institutional processes.

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Evaluating Assessment Tools in Child Protection: A Conceptual Framework of Internal and Ecological Requirements

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Despite substantial evidence on the higher predictive validity of empirically derived instruments compared to clinical judgement, the controversy on the best direction in child protection assessment is far from over. We introduce a conceptual framework that may help explain why this controversy continues. The framework distinguishes between internal and ecological requirements of assessment tools. First, existing frameworks have primarily focused on internal requirements that refer to the psychometric qualities of a tool, which are theoretically independent of the organisational context. For these internal requirements, we suggest a distinction between three types of validity: construct validity, predictive validity, and indicative validity. Second, the degree of fit with the ecological requirements determines how well the tool works in a specific organisation: for example, whether a tool makes sense to practitioners, whether they readily adopt or tacitly adapt it, or how well it fits with the objectives of the organisation and the goals of individual workers. We define four such requirements: adequacy, organisational suitability, practicality and utility. The framework is illustrated with data from an ethnographic study in Switzerland. The framework leads to questions that may guide managers and frontline workers in developing, implementing and evaluating standardised risk assessment in child protection. Key Practitioner Messages The value of an assessment tool in child protection practice only partly depends on the tool's internal qualities, such as the tool's validity in predicting future child maltreatment. In addition, the tool must meet ecological requirements: it must be oriented towards an adequate definition of child maltreatment, must support and be supported by organisational procedures and workers' competencies and must support workers in carrying out their goals effectively. When services consider implementing an existing tool or developing a new one, they should assess the tool's internal and ecological qualities with equal care. Paying attention to one set of requirements alone may be a costly mistake.

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Standardisation—the end of professional discretion?

Cited by 102 publications

References 37 publications

Det besvärliga våldet : Socialtjänstens stöd till kvinnor som utsatts för våld i nära relationer

Det besvärliga våldet : Socialtjänstens stöd till kvinnor som utsatts för våld i nära relationer

Implementing a Point‐Based Rewards System as an Educational Tool in Children's Home: From Standardisation to Coconstruction and Negotiation

Evaluating Assessment Tools in Child Protection: A Conceptual Framework of Internal and Ecological Requirements

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