Just how do we balance demands for standardisation with local flexibility, innovation and individual professional integrity?
This readable book explores professional ethics in the social professions from a number of perspectives: philosophy, sociology and practice.
Banks' tracking of the recent shift from professional confidence and optimism to organisational compliance, and from radical to managerial values, will resonate with readers.
Practitioners have had to take on more administrative tasks and practitioner/managers are now required to take decisions on rationing and budgets. Advocacy for the individual rubs against decisions about the best interests of the organisation.
Drawing on interviews with practitioners in the statutory and voluntary sector and from youth offending teams and other partnerships, Banks highlights issues of identity, values and culture and "the ethics of mistrust".
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