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).

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

An investigation across the public sector into inspection regimes, audits, and performance targets