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This article reviews a much-neglected area of probation practice: rural service. It reviews relevant literature from other human services to make the case that while the predominant focus in much of the available literature is upon questions of increased costs in delivering service to dispersed populations, there are other important aspects of the rural context which bear upon the delivery and receipt of service. It concludes with some consideration of the potential of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) for more locally variable and flexible forms of service delivery.

Este artículo describe los cambios que se están observando en los programas de educación para el trabajo social en Gran Bretaña. Los estándares más altos, el desarrollo de códigos de conducta y el aumento de regulación y prescripción en los programas de educación para el trabajo social, todos se enfocan a la mejora de servicios; sin embargo, tienen también como consecuencia la disminución de la independencia de los educadores. Estos cambios están creando mecanismos que se pueden usar no solo para disciplinar a profesionales irresponsables sino también para inhibir a aquellos que tienen ideas diferentes sobre la profesión. Este artículo propone que el enfoque concentrado en la "practica evidenciaria" es parte de una dirección política para regular la conducta profesional. ; This paper describes the significant changes taking place in social work education and training in the UK. The development of service standards, professional registers and codes of conduct, together with the increasing levels of regulation and prescription of social work education and training, all aimed at improving service standards, are also diminishing the independence of educational providers. These changes are creating powerful regulatory mechanisms which may be used to discipline not only erroneous and poor practice, but also to quash or inhibit unorthodox and dissenting practitioners. This paper shows how the moves towards evidence based practice are part of a wider political project to regulate professional conduct.

This book provides a wide-ranging review of existing writing and research on rural social services and explores some of the distinctive features of rural contexts and rural problems.