Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: What is leadership in children's social care?• Elusive …• If the inspectorate don't know … opportunity to research leadership practice in this context."The qualities that make a successful children's services leader aren't straightforward to define -but inspections show that they're very obvious when present -and strikingly so when they aren't."(Eleanor Schooling, Ofsted, 2016) Enter ethnography … subject to consent Consent challenge 1 : university ethics approval• Challenging population to study -children and vulnerable adults are being discussed but are not present.• Shadowing of leaders -in positions of power -"primary" and "secondary" participants.• Lots of questions about management of audio recordings.• Artificial 'phases' to appease non-ethnographer reviewers.• Consent flow diagrams assisted.
Author: Waits, Charlotte
Language: English
Subfield: Public Administration
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7028575704
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