The Tyranny of Outcomes. Issue 3 (3rd June 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The Tyranny of Outcomes. Issue 3 (3rd June 2021)
- Main Title:
- The Tyranny of Outcomes
- Authors:
- Clapton, Gary
- Abstract:
- Abstract : This perspective piece highlights an everyday feature of the work of UK social workers, their managers and policy-makers. The use of outcomes as a measurement of achievement. The growth of the use of outcomes, their present-day ubiquity, the professed efficacy of their use and their connections with managerialism are then problematised. It is suggested that the deployment of outcomes can serve as a seeming assurance of efficiency. This is to the detriment of less technocratic, softer, more uncertain, yet more realistic and humanist, efforts to describe change and growth. No solutions – or outcomes – are offered. Rather this short perspective piece adopts the approach of 'a problem well stated is a problem half-solved'.
- Is Part Of:
- Practice. Volume 33:Issue 3(2021)
- Journal:
- Practice
- Issue:
- Volume 33:Issue 3(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 33, Issue 3 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0033-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 223
- Page End:
- 231
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06-03
- Subjects:
- outcomes -- social work practice
Social service -- Periodicals
361.005 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cpra20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/09503153.2020.1800621 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0950-3153
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 6597.117000
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