THE WELFARE SERVICE

The Welfare Service

The Welfare Service

More recent commentators on social work values and ethics have been critical of the list of principles arguing that the principles are very broad and open to wide interpretation resulting in confusion. A second argument put forward is that no indications are given as to the status of the different principles. Another argument used is that the principles are not ranked and no guidance is given for when the principles are in conflict with each other. To highlight one weakness of the list principles or Kantian framework, it is difficult to decide whose right ...