SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE Development of policy and law in relation to social work practice

Development of policy and law in relation to social work practice

Quality assurance measurements are used by professionals in all sectors. However this assignment shall only be discussing quality assurance relating to early years. Social work perform is not only about one-by-one desires, it also considers communal context. This communal context includes the range of inter-professional bureaus contributing to packages of care and protection, as well as the relationships between service users and their families, associates and communities. Quality Assurance can only be achieved through a shared understanding of service aims, priorities, policy developments and monitoring and evaluating mechanisms. This requires everyone involved to have a clear vision of what they are working towards and commitment? Time will tell whether we can provide an overall service for children which encompasses every child in every aspect of society or are we just wasting money on changing names for e.g. from 'Quality Assurance' to 'Quality improvement network'. Social work is also predisposed by the social and political climate in which it exists. The roles of social workers and the needs of service users are both influenced and defined by the beliefs, values, policies and laws of society. (http://openlearn.open.ac.uk4)

Knowledge and awareness of legislative frameworks for care provison in comunity care, mental health and youth justice.

Social care organisations will continue to modernise for the foreseeable future, this could be by the continuing Labour government using the “command and control” model of policy management, and understanding that “one size does not fit all”, (Hafford- Letchfield 2006). However, this could also be done by placing more rights on the service user and handing over power to the service user, as stated in the Labour Party Manifesto 2005.

Social employees have to proceed within the regulation and can be called upon to support their activities to enclosures and managers as well as to service users. Social workers are also employees and consequently can be called upon to justify their actions to their line managers and the organisation that employs them.

The National Service Framework for mental health helps drive up quality and remove the wide and unacceptable variations in provision. (http://www.dh.gov.uk 2008)

The government White paper of 1975 “better services for the Mentally Ill” proposed a policy of “deinstitutionalisation, relocating mental health treatment to the community” (Powell,F 2001). The Local Authority has a duty under s.47 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (NHSCCA) to assess services users to see if their needs call for the provision of services. Due to a service users mental health needs they are able to receive both residential and non-residential facilities under s.7E (b) of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970 (LASSA). Established within the NHSCCA 1990 are arrangements for people with Mental Health problems, and the Local Authority Social Services are responsible for planning and purchasing relevant social care services and for assessing the individual to determine what services they ...