ABSTRACT
This chapter, in part, critiques audit, and audit culture, with particular reference to Plato’s Therapeia. Plato suggested that Therapeia is of vital importance to societies. In both the Report of the Children’s Society and Ecclestone and Hayes’ book The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education grave concern is raised, in different ways, about the rise of individualism. Audits and technological ‘thinking’ can be fine if they enable the reader to think, but not if they restrict the essential human basis of a thinking and acting which is what happens when the people have an ‘audit culture’. The growing trend of audit culture with its many managerialist derivatives includes a narrower reading of evidence-based practice, which in turn is significantly changing the provision of therapies.
