Nick Frost is Emeritus Professor at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He was a local authority social worker and an adult educator, before joining Leeds Beckett University in 2009. Nick has over a decade of experience as Chair of three different Local Safeguarding Children Boards. He has addressed conferences on child welfare issues in many countries and acted as a consultant to a number of governments and voluntary organisations. Nick has produced over 20 books including, most recently, of Safeguarding Children and Young People (Sage, 2021).
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Chapter 1: Measuring everything in the public sector Chapter 2: Assessing quality in universities: measuring teaching and research Chapter 3: Targets and transparency in the NHS: promoting patient choice through the audit culture Chapter 4: Schools and the role of Ofsted: 'you could hear the sound of staple guns in the corridors from dawn to dusk!' Chapter 5: Children's social care: measuring the immeasurable Chapter 6: Crime and policing: holding the police accountable Chapter 7: Rethinking the audit culture: towards an alternative