ADULT SOCIAL WORK SECTOR

Policy Development in the Adult Social Work Sector

Policy Development in the Adult Social Work Sector

Introduction

Social care includes care of the society of citizens that are in need of help, the provision of assistance related to health, age, lack of livelihoods, and social status. Social assistance and social care in manifested in various forms. Social protection and social security is given by means of allowances, pensions, child care, maintenance of the elderly and the sick, and material assistance. Social insurance is a guaranteed commercial security system. Within a country, several organizations and institutions regulate social work in the society and in home. The British Association of Social Workers in the United Kingdom is very successful in its social work. The goal of the profession of social care is to promote the cause of social justice and establish better living conditions. Social care supports various means to provide welfare and prosperity in the community as a whole and to individuals and families within it. Other broad social issues are also dealt by social care professionals. These issues are resolved with due solutions for the assistance of the whole society. Social work professionals also contribute in raising the economic situation of the whole society, particularly that of the sick and the poor. Social work has a lengthy historical background in the promotion and progress of the community and the struggle against poverty and the problems that ensue. Consequently, social work is connected to a great extent with the idea of charity works. Within UK, the implementation of best practice based on social care and policy and legislation for community-based service of health, social care and mental illnesses, are becoming widespread. Various organizations work in this domain such as SSD of Bath and North East Somerset (BANES), a community health care and mental illnesses. The service covers an area that includes diverse urban and rural areas at a time, with a population of about 166,000 inhabitants. Every year, from the community centre of health care and mental illness, social care is received by some 3000 elderly people with mental and physical disabilities. Other social care services such as giving pension, material allowances as well as providing protection to the citizens is also increasing (Davies, 2000, p. 400).

Policy Practice in social work

The history of social work profession indicates that the policy practice has great power.

The initial efforts by Julia Lathrop with regards to the establishment of juvenile court system and for universal health care, and the recent advocacy by the social workers present the power of policy practice. By means of policy practice, the conditions of millions of people have been improved by social works through out the world. One of the important features of social work and research in its domain is to pay attention to both practice and policy (Shaw et al., eds, p. 49).

Policy practice is related to the use of skills of social work for the proposal and modification of policies for achieving the aim of social ...