Task:
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Human services practitioners work across many domains of practice including direct work with individuals, groups and communities.
1. Critically examine the policy or policies that you consider impact upon a client group and suggest ways that policy could be changed to improve the life outcomes for those with whom you are working.
2. Develop a framework that you would adopt for influencing policy change that aligns with your professional values, standards and ethics.
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Assessment criteria:
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- Critical analysis of social policy
- Application of theory to practice
- Adherence to academic conventions of writing (egreferencing; writing style).At least 8 references
please ensure to use the following references among others
Carson, E. and Kerr, L. (2014 or 2018) Chapter 7. Income support, inAustralian Social Policy and the Human Services.Cambridge University Press
Jamrozik, A. (2009) ‘Income security’, Chapter Six inSocial Policy in the Post-Welfare State
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Australian society in a changing world(3rdedition)
,Pearson Education, NSW.
McDonald, C. & Marston, G. (2006) ‘Room to move? Professional discretion at the frontline of welfare-to-work,Australian Journal of Social Issues, 41, no. 2, Winter 2006.
Saunders, P. (2004) ‘Welfare Isn’t Working’, Chapter One inAustralia’s Welfare Habit and how to kick it,Duffy and Snellgrove, Sydney.
Bryson, L. (1992) ‘Conclusion: the welfare state in the twenty-first century’ inWelfare and the state: who benefits?New York, St Martins Press.
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