social policy final

Description/Focus: 

Essay

Value: 

50%

Due date: 

Midnight Sunday (31st May)

Length:  

2500 words

Task: 

 Human services practitioners work across many domains of practice including direct work with individuals, groups and communities. 

Critically examine the social policy that impacts one client group and propose why, how and when you could influence a policy changes.

Consider in particular the policy making process (chapter 4 of your text) and opportunities available to your clients, your professional body, peak bodies for influencing such change.  The task will require you to be familiar with Chapter 4 of your text and the policy making process and the Australian Government election cycle.

The aim of the essay is to ensure you appreciate how to recognise the influence of policy on your clients, and the ways that you can be instrumental to bringing about change if required.

 Presentation:      

The document will be typed in a word document.

· 12 pt. Font

· 1½ or Double spacing

Assessment criteria: 

· Critical analysis of social policy “Australian Social Work Perspective”

· Application of theory to practice

· Adherence to academic conventions of writing (eg referencing; writing style).  At least 8 references

Essays that do not comply to the 12 point and 1 1/2 spacing rules will not be marked.  The font to use is Arial - for ease of reading.  

Also boarders need to be justified equally .

Papers that have very old references and not current policy for the analysis will be marked down.

I will be marking papers down for 

a) poor choice of words

b) poor sentence construction

c) poor referencing

d) poor reference list construction

Must Needed Tips:

Remember to position yourself as worker and how you would apply your skills to work with a client group.

Narrow down you client group.

if you are not working already - think about where you would be working and who is your client.

The idea is to explore the policies impacting on the client group.

Here is an example:

Domestic and Family violence services are usually aimed at victims.

Think about who is in the client?

Is the client the mother or the child?

if it is the mother, would you consider cultural identity? 

Would you consider remote? rural? urban? city? Does it matter? 

how are the current DV policies affect this group.

Good luck in identifying your group.