Social Care

History of Social Care:

Purposes

1. To measure and understand the History of Social Care.

2. To set up who provides Social Care and what services are available.

3. Who would be the Services Users in Social Care?

Plan

Research was conducted by cross citing the available published literature such as books available in the college library, with on-line informations published on several specializer web sites covering with societal attention.

Introduction: Defining Social Care.

The capable affair of this study is the History of Social Care. This is defined by Irish Association of Social Care Educators [ IASCE ] , the organic structure that represents the pedagogues in the field, runs as follows: Social Care is an ( emerging ) profession characterised by working in partnership with people who experience marginalization or disadvantage or who have particular demands. Social attention practicians may work, for illustration, with kids and striplings in residential attention, people with acquisition or physical disablements, people who are stateless, people with alcohol/drug dependence, households in the community, older people, recent immigrants to Ireland, and others. Typically, though non ever, societal attention practicians work with kids, young person and their households. ( Lalor and Share 2009 p.7 ) . In the broader European context, societal attention work is normally referred to as societal teaching method and societal attention practicians as societal educators. In the United States and Canada the term kid and young person attention is normally used. ( Social Studies [ online ] 2009 ) .

The History of Social Care:

To understand what societal attention is, it is of import to understand where it has come from. Social Care in Ireland to today, was born out of the serious lacks in the running of kids ‘s Centres… and the acknowledgment of the demand for professionally trained staff ( Kenny and Gallagher, 1997 cited in N Mc Elwee and P Share: 9 ) . Social Care was foremost provided on behalf of the province by the Catholic and other churches in Ireland. ( Lalor and Share 2009 p.12 ) .

In 1868 The Industrial Schools Act. Industrial schools were established to care for ignored, orphaned and abandoned kids. ( Paddy Doyle [ online ] , 2009 ) .

They were run by spiritual orders and funded by the populace for the care of such kids. ( CICA Investigation Committee Report Vol.1: 35 ) . Each industrial school was to be independently managed and run, capable to the province blessing and review. It was seemed natural that churches should take duty for supplying aid to the hapless. Due to the rise in the spiritual orders, of nuns, priest and brothers. ( CICA Investigation Committee Report Vol.1: 38 ) .

In 1908 The Children Act defined reform schools as responsible for eating, vesture, lodging and learning immature wrongdoers. ( Paddy Doyle [ online ] , 2009 ) .

In 1929 The Children Act allowed kids to be sent to industrial schools, even if they had non committed a offense. . ( Paddy Doyle [ online ] , 2009 ) .

On Paddy Doyle ‘s web site he goes on to name serious lacks in the running of kids ‘s Centres. He excessively had been a victim of these lacks which where managed and run by spiritual orders. ( Paddy Doyle [ online ] , 2009 ) .

There has been several influential studies been published that have helped to determine the development of societal attention. ( N Mc Elwee and P Share: 9 ) .

The most important studies were arguably the Tuairim Report ( 1966 ) , the Kennedy Report ( Department of Education 1970 ) , the Task Force Report on Child Care Services ( 1980 ) and the Report of the Kilkenny Incest Investigation ( McGuinness 1993 ) . ( N Mc Elwee and P Share: 13 ) .

The Kennedy Report was the motive and force for the first preparation class for societal attention workers in Kilkenny in 1970. ( N Mc Elwee and P Share: 239 ) . In 2005, the Irish authorities signed into jurisprudence the Health and Social Care Professionals Act, which stipulates that in order to name oneself a professional societal attention worker, one must possess a minimal HETAC or DIT level 7 BA ( Ord. ) grade ( once Diploma ) in Child/Social Care or Applied Social Studies. However, this piece of statute law is non to the full implemented ( as of May 2009 ) and the Social Care Registration Board is yet to be established. ( N Mc Elwee and P Share: 240 ) . The anomaly exists that even when the enrollment is board up and running, persons who have non got societal attention preparation can still be employed in societal attention, but they will non be able to register or name themselves societal attention workers. ( N Mc Elwee and P Share: 240 ) .

There has besides been a sequence of influential studies in the disablement sector, the most of import of which has been. A Scheme for Equality ( Commission on the Status of People with Disabilities 1996 ) , while in the instruction and preparation sector, the Report on Caring and Social Studies ( NCEA 1992 ) laid the footing for today ‘s scope of degree programmes in societal attention and applied societal surveies. ( N Mc Elwee and P Share: 13 ) .

Who provides Social Care and what services do they offer.

Health Service Executives

Mentions

Books

Mc Elwee. and Share P ( 2005 ) , 1st erectile dysfunction. Applied Social Care, An Introduction for Irish Students in Ireland, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin.

Lalor, K. and Share P ( 2009 ) , 2nd erectile dysfunction. Applied Social Care, An Introduction for Irish Students in Ireland, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin.

History of disregard available hypertext transfer protocol: // www.paddydoyle.com/

About societal surveies available hypertext transfer protocol: //www.socialstudies.ie/index.php? pagid=13 & A ; useid=tab1217432340s8 [ accessed 10 Nov 2009 ] .

Bibography

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