CARE06021 2022 Social Care and Social Policy 1

Social Care and Social Policy 1

Soc Care & Soc Pol 1

CARE06021

80 %

CARE - Social Studies

SOCS - Social Sciences

06 - NFQ Level 6

05 - 05 Credits

Semester

€

2022 - Full Academic Year 2022-23

9999 - The End of Time

Elizabeth Haran, Brenda Feeney, John Pender

SG_HSOCI_H08 202200 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Social Care Practice SG_WSOCI_H07 202200 Bachelor of Arts in Social Care Practice SG_WSOCI_B07 202200 Bachelor of Arts in Social Care Practice SG_WSOCI_H07 202200 Bachelor of Arts in Social Care Practice SG_HSOCP_H08 202300 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Social Care Practice SG_HSOCI_H08 202300 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Social Care Practice

This module introduces students to social policy. Social policy refers to the policies which governments use for welfare and social protection and to the ways in which welfare is developed in a society. It entails the study of the social relations necessary for human wellbeing and the systems by which wellbeing may be promoted. Students will study how such systems determine wellbeing and their modes of delivery: healthcare and education, housing and social security as well as love and security. All of these systems are organised by a range of bodies: government and official bodies; businesses, social groups, charities, local associations and churches, neighbours, families and loved ones. Understanding how all such systems operate is the focus of this module.

This module maps to the CORU Standards of Proficiency below:

Domain 1: Professional Autonomy and Accountability

Domain 2: Communication, Collaborative Practice and Team working

Domain 3 Safety and Quality

Domain 4: Professional Development

Domain 5: Professional Knowledge and Skills

100 %

Required Reading
2022-05-03 Hidden Voices Policy Press
ISBN 1447360923 ISBN-13 9781447360926

Underpinned by the idea of the right to a 'basic minimum', welfare states are a major feature of many societies. However, the lived experiences of persons seeking and receiving welfare payments can often be overlooked. This book seeks to remedy this omission by honouring lived experience as valuable, insightful and necessary. It draws on qualitative interviews with 19 people receiving various working age welfare payments in Ireland to explore stigma, social reciprocity and the notions of the deserving and undeserving poor, and to analyse welfare conditionality in the Irish context. Breaking new ground, this book offers original research findings which contest and inform policy both within Ireland and beyond.

Required Reading
2020-06 Housing Shock
ISBN 9781447353898 ISBN-13 1447353897

Hearne contextualises the Irish housing crisis within its broader global context and examines its origins in terms of the extension of neoliberalism, marketisation and financialisation in housing. Using real voices and stories, he shows how the crisis is having profound impacts on equality, wellbeing and health.

Required Reading
2017-05-31 Irish Social Policy (second Edition) Policy Press
ISBN 9781447329626 ISBN-13 1447329627

This second edition of a highly successful textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to social policy in Ireland addressing a range of social policy topics of growing importance in contemporary Irish society including issues related to children, service users and groups, migration, ethnicity, sexuality and climate change.

Required Reading
2014-02-20 Politics, Pauperism and Power in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland Manchester University Press
ISBN 0719091349 ISBN-13 9780719091346

This is a study of the nature and operation of the Irish poor law system in the post-famine period. It traces the expansion of the system to encompass a wide range of welfare services, and explains the ideological and political context in which expansion took place. The only local government bodies in rural areas to include elected members, poor law boards provided many Irish nationalists with their first experience of administrative power. As the influence of the nationalist guardians in the south and west grew, so the character of poor law administration in these areas began to change. Crossman explores the nature and significance of this process through detailed analysis of local decision-making and official actions, providing a new perspective on relationships between central and local administrators, welfare providers and welfare recipients, and the respectable and non-respectable. Topics covered include the politicisation of the welfare system, the relief of distress, the provision of labourers' cottages and the role of women in poor law administration.

Required Reading
2019-02-26 Social Policy Polity
ISBN 1509524061 ISBN-13 9781509524068

How do human societies provide for the wellbeing of their members? How far can we organize the ways in which we care for and about each other? And who should take responsibility for providing the support we need? These are some of the fundamental questions addressed by social policy today. In this introduction, Hartley Dean explains the extraordinary scope and importance of social policy. He explores its foundations and contemporary significance; the principal issues it addresses and their diverse economic, political and sociological dimensions, and concludes by looking anew at fundamental challenges facing social policy in a dramatically changing world. Introducing social policy as a broadly conceived study of human wellbeing, this revised and extensively updated third edition examines ways in which governments and peoples throughout the world attend to, promote, neglect or even undermine the things that make life worth living. These include essential services like healthcare and education; the means of livelihood jobs and money and sometimes intangible things such as physical and emotional security. Trying to understand these elements, which together constitute human wellbeing, is the stuff of social policy.

Required Reading
2021-07-13 Social Policy Polity
ISBN 1509540393 ISBN-13 9781509540396

Welfare states face profound challenges. Widening economic and social inequalities have been intensified by austerity politics, sharpened by the rise in ethno-nationalism and exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, recent decades have seen a resurgence of social justice activism at the local and transnational level. Yet the transformative power of feminist, anti-racist and post/decolonial thinking has become relatively marginal to core social policy theory, while other critical approaches around disability, sexuality, migration, age and the environment have only selectively found recognition. This book provides a much-needed new analysis of this complex landscape, drawing together critical approaches in social policy with intersectionality and political economy. Fiona Williams contextualizes contemporary social policies not only in the global crisis of finance capitalism, but also in the interconnected global crises of care, ecology, and racialized borders. These shape and are shaped at national scale by the intersecting dynamics of Family, Nation, Work and Nature. Through critical assessment of these realities, the book probes the ethical, prefigurative and transformative possibilities for a future welfare commons. This significant intervention will animate social policy thinking, teaching and research. It will be essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the complexities of social policy for the years ahead.

Required Reading
2015 The End of the Irish Poor Law?
ISBN 0719087570 ISBN-13 9780719087578

This book examines Irish poor law reform during the years of the Irish revolution and Irish Free State. This work is a significant addition to the growing historiography of twentieth-century Ireland which moves beyond political history. It demonstrates that concepts of respectability, deservingness, social class, and gender where central dynamics in Irish society. This book provides the first major study of local welfare practices, policies, and attitudes towards poverty and the poor in this era. This book's exploration of the poor law during revolutionary Ireland provides fresh and original insights into this critical juncture in Irish history. It charts the transformation of the former workhouse system into a network of local authority welfare and healthcare institutions including county homes, county and hospital hospitals, and mother and baby homes. It makes an important contribution to not just historiographical understandings, but also contemporary debates on institutions in Ireland's past. New insights into medical history and hospital care are also provided. It's based on under-utilised local and central government records and reveals not just the attitudes of the poor relief officials, but also sheds much light on the poor and how people engaged with the system. The book is also comparative in context and places the Irish experience of poor relief reform against the backdrop of wider transnational trends. This work has multiple audiences and will appeal to those interested in Irish social, culture, economic and political history. The book will also appeal to historians of welfare, the poor law, and the social history of medicine.

Irish Journal of Applies Social Studies

Journal of Social Policy

Social Policy and Society

Critical Social Policy