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Professionalized through audit?
— Care workers and the new audit regime in Sweden | | Author(s) | Linda Moberg, Paula Blomqvist, Ulrika Winblad |
| Journal title | Social Policy and Administration, vol 52, no 3, May 2018 |
| Publisher | Wiley, May 2018 |
| Pages | pp 631-645 |
| Source | http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/spol |
| Keywords | Social workers ; Paid welfare workers ; Professional workers ; Children ; Older people ; Services ; Evaluation ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | The professionalisation of social care workers is a policy goal in many welfare states. At the same time, professionalisation risks being undermined by enhanced audit. The objective of this study was to analyse whether the audit processes adopted in Swedish eldercare and childcare support or undermine the professionalisation of the occupations working there, i.e. nurses, nursing assistants, preschool teachers and preschool assistants. In particular the study investigated whether the three main forms of audit _ standard-setting, inspections and quality measurements _ support or undermine the occupations' ability to achieve professional closure and enhance their external and internal autonomy. The findings suggest that audit processes in eldercare risk undermining professionalisation, while in childcare the pattern is reversed: audit appears supportive of professionalsation, at least for preschool teachers. This finding suggests that audit processes do not have to be detrimental to professionalisation. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180504209 A |
| Classmark | QR: QP: T7: SBC: B: I: 4C: 76P |
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