Tidmarsh, M orcid.org/0000-0002-6063-9805 (2022) Professionalism, Payment by Results and the Probation Service: A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Marketisation on Professional Autonomy. Work, Employment and Society, 36 (6). pp. 1118-1138. ISSN 0950-0170
Abstract
This article utilises Foucauldian understandings of the sociology of the professions to explore how marketising reforms to probation services in England and Wales, and the implementation of a ‘Payment by Results’ (PbR) mechanism in particular, have impacted professional autonomy. Drawing on an ethnographic study of a probation office within a privately owned Community Rehabilitation Company, it argues that an inability to control the socio-economic organisation of probation work has rendered the service susceptible to challenges to autonomy over technique. PbR was proffered as a means to restore practitioner discretion; however, the article demonstrates that probation staff have been compelled to economise their autonomy, adapting their conduct to conform to market-related forms of accountability. In this sense, it presents the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms to probation as a case study of the impact of marketisation on the autonomy of practitioners working within a public sector profession.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021, © SAGE Publications. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) |
Keywords: | autonomy, Payment by Results, probation, professionalism, transforming rehabilitation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Sep 2021 14:38 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:44 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/09500170211003825 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:177359 |