Provide a critical evaluation of a key social care policy or policies. Explore how these may hinder and redress social inequalities and implications for social work practice with your chosen group.

Social Policy Essay: 3000 – 3300 word count

Choose one of the following groups on which to focus for either of the questions below:
• Older people,
• Mental health service users,
• Vulnerable children and families
• Adults with disabilities
• People who identify as LGBTQ+
• People experiencing homelessness

Essay question
1. Select a key concept or theory covered in the course and critically discuss how this can help critically evaluate social policies and social workers’ understanding and ability to address social inequalities in practice with your chosen group.
• 2. Provide a critical evaluation of a key social care policy or policies. Explore how these may hinder and redress social inequalities and implications for social work practice with your chosen group.

Critically evaluate the complex interactions within multi agency working, reflecting on practice, and identifying areas for potential development.

Safeguarding Children

Students will write a 3000 word case study critically analyse the complexities of safeguarding children in practice considering legislation, policy and practical application.

Learning objectives:

2. Critically evaluate the complex interactions within multi agency working, reflecting on practice, and identifying areas for potential development.

3. Demonstrate a critical understanding of your own values and attitudes and the importance of anti-discriminatory practice when making judgements and decisions in safeguarding

12. Course materials/reading

 

What questions would be appropriate and what questions would not be appropriate?How would you ensure that the child’s voice is heard within your assessment?

Design a task to enable you to gather evidence from a 5-year-old child who has been physically abused.
• What questions would be appropriate and what questions would not be appropriate?
• How would you ensure that the child’s voice is heard within your assessment?
• This task will relate to the training around direct work with children as part of your induction

What do you think the male counselor learned while practicing feminist therapy using the alter ego feedback system?

Issues in Counseling Women

1) At minute 6:34 stop the tape. List and explain the sexist behaviors exhibited by the counselor during the session.

2) At minute 14:11, stop the tape and list the distinctions between the second example and the first example.

3) At minute 18:12, stop the tape and list the differences between the two examples.

4) What are some issues that should be considered when counseling Black women ?

5) What do you think the male counselor learned while practicing feminist therapy using the alter ego feedback system?

You should use appropriate sources of information to justify your views. You must also cite your sources in APA style , follow grammatical rules when constructing sentences, and avoid ANY type of plagiarism.

Briefly explain and evaluate the key findings of each source in around 150-200 words, showing that you can critically assess the value of the evidence provided. Please see description file .

The impact of austerity measures on prisons in England and Wales.

Social Research Methods Unit Produce an annotated bibliography based on FIVE robust sources conveying findings from empirical research studies..

Your annotations should briefly explain and evaluate the key findings of each source in around 150-200 words, showing that you can critically assess the value of the evidence provided. Please see description file .

Briefly explain and evaluate the key findings of each source in around 150-200 words, showing that you can critically assess the value of the evidence provided.

The impact of austerity measures on prisons in England and Wales.

Social Research Methods UnitProduce an annotated bibliography based on FIVE robust sources conveying findings from empirical research studies..

Your annotations should briefly explain and evaluate the key findings of each source in around 150-200 words, showing that you can critically assess the value of the evidence provided.

Apply these important considerations to situations where children and young people’s circumstances and experiences cause them to be subject to youth justice interventions critically assess policy and professional responses to working with children involved in the youth justice system.

The objectives of the unit are to develop students’ awareness and knowledge of:
how children and young people are perceived and treated by the youth justice system in England and Wales theoretical, policy and professional approaches to the needs and rights of children and young people involved in offending behaviour international differences in the ways in which children are perceived and treated by criminal legislation.

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
Identify the needs and rights of children and young people involved in offending behaviour.
Apply these important considerations to situations where children and young people’s circumstances and experiences cause them to be subject to youth justice interventions
critically assess policy and professional responses to working with children involved in the youth justice system.
Synthesise different theoretical, policy and professional approaches to youth offending
critically evaluate cross-national differences and similarities in perceptions of and the treatment of children within youth justice systems.

Explain what is the importance of the legislation and it supports or may constrain service users’ rights.

Social work assignment

• Research Project 1: research the main areas of the Care Act 2014 and what government guidance will underpin this legislation. Explain what is the importance of the legislation and it supports or may constrain service users’ rights.

• Research Project 2: research the main areas of the Children Act 1989 especially child in need and Child protection and what government guidance would underpin this legislation. Explain what is the importance of the legislation and it supports or may constrain service users’ rights.