Ensuring The Future Of Rural Social Work In Australia
Social work has an important role to play in remote, rural and regional Australia in combating social disadvantage like poorer health, lower education standards, fewer employment opportunities and lower wages. The future of rural social work in Australia can be guaranteed by supporting those wishing to live and work in rural communities through education programs, industry support programs and ongoing professional programs.
Conceptualizing Assimilation of Interactional Justice within Social Justice Ethical Code Application as Exemplified at Imo State, Nigeria: Widowhood and Inheritance Challenges
The article explores and discusses the role of assimilating interactional justice within the concept of social justice approach to ethical code application. The literature review and theoretical dimension to the study reconnoitered the Social Exchange and the General Strain theories as they relates to interactional justice perspective and deliberates on the impact of three social justice aspects from their outcome-oriented and relationship-oriented paradigm to the study and its apparent implications to the ethical code. This study’s appraisal investigated application of interactional justice amid social justice ethical views, experiences and attitudes of social workers that where extracted from a qualitative focus group discussion study design of (n-33) practitioners in Imo State based on the socio-cultural patterns of the people that have been sources of dilemma in advocating for social justice. Recommendations were made including five possible areas on how practitioners could be prepared to address the social and cultural discrepancies pertaining to advocacy of social justice within interactional justice application as well as future study engagement on administrators-practitioners relationship outcome to policies regulations. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n23p2137
The historical and political context of mandatory reporting and its impact on child protection practice in Victoria
Abstract This article explores the historical and political debate concerning mandatory reporting of child abuse in Victoria. The argument advanced here is that the decision by the Victorian Government to introduce mandatory reporting in early 1993 reflected narrow political priorities, rather than any concern for enhanced service or practice outcomes. As a result, Victoria has witnessed a short-sighted shift of resources from child abuse prevention and support to child abuse investigations. A massive increase in reports of child abuse and neglect forced the government to employ large numbers of extra child protection workers, but the government simultaneously implemented severe cuts to child welfare support services. Today, the Victorian child protection system is arguably less able – rather than more able – to protect children from significant harm.