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Mind the Gap: Why policy does not become practice

Mind the Gap: Why policy does not become practice. Patrick Ayre Department of Applied Social Studies University of Bedfordshire email: pga@patrickayre.co.uk web: http://patrickayre.co.uk. Deprofessionalisation.

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Mind the Gap: Why policy does not become practice

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  1. Mind the Gap: Why policy does not become practice Patrick Ayre Department of Applied Social Studies University of Bedfordshire email: pga@patrickayre.co.uk web: http://patrickayre.co.uk

  2. Deprofessionalisation • Policy:we need to developa more highly skilled and competent professional workforce • Practice: we are developing a workforce which is increasingly deprofessionalised and lacking in professional self-confidence

  3. Deprofessionalisation • Part of a wider trend • Managerialism, McDonaldisation and the audit culture • Management by external objectives • Impact of causes célèbres • Professionals not to be trusted

  4. Policy and practice • Policy may be aimed at achieving broad aspirational objectives • Local practice aims at achieving narrow pragmatic objectives • This pragmatism is exacerbated by management by targets

  5. Pious calm?

  6. The truth, the whole truth? Born in 1942, he was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment at the age of 25. After 5 unsuccessful fights, he gave up his attempt to make a career in boxing in 1981 and has since had no other regular employment

  7. CLIMATIC CONDITIONS • Climate of fear • Climate of mistrust • Climate of blame

  8. Trusting procedures • Procedural proliferation • Blaming and training • The myth of predictability

  9. Procedures as a net to catch problems

  10. Procedures as a net to catch problems

  11. Procedures as a net to catch problems

  12. Procedures as a net to catch problems

  13. Young people abused through prostitution • Policy: Young people engaged in prostitution will be treated as children at risk rather than as offenders • Practice: Virtually no effect on child care practice in most parts of the country

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