scholarly journals Lessons from abroad: Rebalancing accountability and pedagogy in the Irish social care sector through the use of effective leadership

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-83
Author(s):  
Cathy Jones ◽  
Catherine Smey Carston
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Quality Service ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Care Managers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Disciplines ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Leadership Approaches

Abstract A concern is emerging in Ireland that social care managers and staff are moving too far away from the ‘care’ in social ‘care’ work. In this paper a discussion of the impact of the bureaucratic procedures and regulation within the social work and social care work sectors is presented along with an exploration of leadership approaches. It is argued that certain leadership approaches, in particular pedagogical leadership, could not only help social care managers to negotiate the complex issues they are facing but also facilitate putting the ‘care’ back into social ‘care’ work. Pedagogical leadership is globally supported across a variety of human service disciplines: it facilitates the creation of a learning culture within the workplace where social care managers facilitate conversations with their teams to encourage reflection, critical thinking and contributions to the professional wisdom required for quality service. The purpose of this article is to contribute to the dialogue within leadership practice for social care professionals. This discourse is necessary if lessons are to be learned from past experiences in this country and others about how to balance the need for care, learning and compassion with accountability.

scholarly journals ANALISIS PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER RELIGIUS, PEDULI SOSIAL, DAN PEDULI LINGKUNGAN TERHADAP KEDISIPLINAN (Studi Kasus Mahasiswa Administrasi Perkantoran Politeknik LP3I Jakarta)

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Edi Wahyu Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Integrated Curriculum ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Environmental Care ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
The Social ◽  
Variable Character ◽  
The Impact

<p>The impact of globalization that is currently happening has made Indonesians forget their character. There are many problems that arise in Indonesian society, including the case of the lack of character possessed by students. This research analyzes the influence of religious character education, social care, environmental care on discipline of LP3I Jakarta Polytechnic Office Administration students. In the t test, the religious character variable partially does not have a positive and significant effect on the discipline variable. While the Social Care Character variable partially does not have a positive and significant effect on the discipline variable. However, the variable Character Caring for the Environment partially has a positive and significant effect on the discipline variable. In the F test simultaneously or together the independent variables have a significant effect on the dependent variable, that the model is able to explain 41.22% of the dependent variable, while 58.78% is influenced by other factors outside the regression model. For the character of caring for the environment, discipline is good and must be improved. Meanwhile, religious character does not affect discipline, this needs to be increased again in the spirit of learning motivation for religious subjects, it is also necessary to make an appropriate curriculum for religious subjects in order to produce disciplined students. For the character of social care, it is necessary to improve soft skills, especially in terms of sharing, so that students have an increased sense of empathy. This also requires an integrated curriculum between subjects, so that graduates Office Administration program of the Polytechnic LP3I Jakarta, can be ready to work with adequate hard skills and soft skills.</p><p class="Style4"><strong>Keywords:</strong> Character Education, Religious, Social Care, Environmental Care, Discipline</p>

scholarly journals Capturing the Impact of Public Narrative: Methodological Challenges Encountered and Opportunities Opened

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110501
Author(s):  
Emilia Aiello ◽  
Teresa Sorde-Marti
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Work Done ◽  
The Impact

Public narrative is a leadership practice of translating values into action. It links the three elements of self, us, and now: why I am called, why we are called, and why we are called to act now. Taught and learned for more than 15 years now through various learning environments (in-person or online courses, in-person or online workshops, etc.), the Narratives4Change research project (H2020, Nr. 841355) aimed at studying how public narrative is being used by individuals as a leadership practice within different domains of practice and across diverse cultural and geographical contexts, as well as what are the impacts achieved. An endeavor never carried before, capturing evidence of impact of public narrative going beyond the usage and transference posed several methodological challenges. To overcome them, we engaged in an on-going process of dialogue with researchers experienced in social impact analysis, and practitioners and leaders well experienced in using public narrative. Drawing on the work done in the framework of the Narratives4Change project, this article explains its methodological design, presenting and discussing two of the strategies adopted to capture the impact dimension, and how they were implemented. On the one hand, the communicative orientation of the mixed-methods research design of the project allowed researchers to empirically grasp the manifold agentic orientations that can be triggered by public narrative. On the other hand, how the Social Impact Open Repository criteria for social impact analysis was incorporated at the time of exploring and deepening into the social reality that was being observed sets us off on an “impact-oriented analytical mindset” that facilitated identifying evidence of impacts. Specific examples of how each of these strategies played out during the methodological design and implementation of the research are discussed, drawing lessons that can also inform the design of future research projects.

Registration and social work education: A golden opportunity or a Trojan horse?

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate van Heugten
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Social Work Educators ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
The Impact

• Summary: The Social Workers Registration Act (2003) introduced a system of voluntary statutory registration of the social work occupation in Aotearoa New Zealand. This was hailed as a measure that would protect the public from unsafe practices, and enhance the status of the profession. More recently, however, commentators have noted that these positive effects may not necessarily be forthcoming. This article explores the impact of registration on educational programmes, by placing regulation of the occupation in the context of hegemonic neoliberalism. • Findings: Neoliberal approaches to social care not only constrain the delivery of services, but attempt to shape the perspectives of the social care workforce. Education is a potentially powerful tool for achieving that shaping. Where statutory regulation of social work is in force, competency based training threatens to supplant critical analysis, which is a hallmark of higher education. To retain viability as an academic discipline, social work educators must champion social work’s continuing role in analysing and theorizing the distribution of power in social welfare and social care. • Application: Social work educators have a role in supporting practitioners, who struggle to maintain disciplinary integrity whilst employed within 21st-century human services, by continuing to engage in critical debates, and advancing knowledge about the theory—practice nexus. In advancing such knowledge, they also have much to offer other disciplines in institutions of higher education that are looking to explicate their utility in the ‘real world’.

Workforce ethnic diversity in older people’s care services: thinking back and thinking ahead in COVID-19 times

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Manthorpe ◽  
Jo Moriarty
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ethnic Inequalities ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on long-standing, structural race inequality in Britain. This paper aims to review historic patterns of ethnic diversity among the workforce employed in services for older people to present some of the lessons that can be learned from the pandemic. Design/methodology/approach A historical overview was undertaken of research about ethnic diversity in the social care workforce. Findings Too often, the ethnic diversity of the social care workforce has been taken as evidence that structural racial inequalities do not exist. Early evidence about the impact of coronavirus on workers from black and minority ethnic groups has led to initiatives aimed at reducing risk among social care employers in the independent sector and in local government. This offers a blueprint for further initiatives aimed at reducing ethnic inequalities and promoting ethnic diversity among the workforce supporting older people. Research limitations/implications The increasing ethnic diversity of the older population and the UK labour force highlights the importance of efforts to address what is effective in reducing ethnic inequalities and what works in improving ethnic diversity within the social care workforce and among those using social care services for older people. Originality/value The ethnic makeup of the workforce reflects a complex reality based on multiple factors, including historical patterns of migration and gender and ethnic inequalities in the UK labour market.

scholarly journals Emma Dowling: The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It?

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
Tereza Butková
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Cost Of Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Monetary Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Relations Of Power

What is care and who is paying for it? Valuing care and care work does not simply mean attributing care work more monetary value. To really achieve change, we must go so much further.As the world becomes seemingly more uncaring, the calls for people to be more compassionate and empathetic towards one another—in short, to care more—become ever-more vocal. The Care Crisis challenges the idea that people ever stopped caring, but also that the deep and multi-faceted crises of our time will be solved by simply (re)instilling the virtues of empathy. There is no easy fix.In this groundbreaking book, Emma Dowling charts the multi-faceted nature of care in the modern world, from the mantras of self-care and what they tell us about our anxieties, to the state of the social care system. She examines the relations of power that play profitability and care off in against one another in a myriad of ways, exposing the devastating impact of financialisation and austerity.The Care Crisis enquires into the ways in which the continued off-loading of the cost of care onto the shoulders of underpaid and unpaid realms of society, untangling how this off-loading combines with commodification, marketisation and financialisation to produce the mess we are living in. The Care Crisis charts the current experiments in short-term fixes to the care crisis that are taking place within Britain, with austerity as the backdrop. It maps the economy of abandonment, raising the question: to whom care is afforded? What would it mean to seriously value care?

Health and social care in an age of austerity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles West
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the impact of austerity policies on health, well-being and social care in the UK. In particular, it considers the health care provided by the National Health Service (NHS) and other health services, as well as the social care that is normally paid for, rather than the wider social support provided by family, friends, neighbours or colleagues. The discussion begins with an overview of the economic case for spending on health and social care, and more specifically the logic in pursuing spending policies that carry a high economic multiplier. The chapter then emphasises the duty of governments and those working in health care to achieve good value for the money spent, citing the case of the UK NHS. It also describes five principles underlying market competition in the context of health care before concluding with an analysis of social care services in the UK.

Covid-19 and social care: Union strategies to reshape a dysfunctional sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-155
Author(s):  
Kevan Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Multidimensional Approach ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Competing Ideas ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Care System

In volume 120 of Theory and Struggle (pp. 124-33), I described Unison North West’s Care Workers for Change campaign and how our multidimensional approach to organising in the care sector was informed by the work of John Kelly (Rethinking Industrial Relations: Mobilization, Collectivism and Long Waves, 1998) and Jane McAlevey (No Short Cuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, 2016). The Covid-19 pandemic has subsequently brought unprecedented catastrophe and human suffering to vulnerable people and workers in our dysfunctional social care system. This contribution first describes the impact of Covid-19 on social care and union responses to it. The focus then turns to competing ideas about how the social care system might be reshaped and the role of unions in pursuing meaningful structural and institutional change that could win lasting improvements for care workers.

The Impact of Modern Trends in the Social Work and Social Care in the Republic of Macedonia

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Biljana Nackovska – Veljkovikj
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact

Social care is an organised network of institutional and non-institutional facilities designed to meet the needs of citizens. The reforms that are taking place in social protection are influenced by modern trends in social work, expressed through decentralization, de-institutionalization, pluralism, strengthening of civil society and the possibility of providing private services, affecting and enriching the content of social work. These change the relationship to the client's position and improve the professionalism of social worker. Changes in social policy, resulting from diverting from central to local level, influence and give direction to the overall social activity. The paper describes the three components thereof (areas): the state of social work and social protection in the Republic of Macedonia, rights and services in the social protection system in the Republic of Macedonia and research part. Starting from the assumption that modern trends affect reforms in the social protection system of the Republic of Macedonia, this paper aims to determine the state of social protection in the Republic of Macedonia. The aim is to gain knowledge about the situation and the changes occurring in the social institutions of public character, influenced by modern trends. Also this paper makes analysis of the legislation in the Republic of Macedonia in the field of social protection. Ultimate goals of the implementation of reforms in the social protection are the welfare of the beneficiary, improving the quality of work and professional development of social workers.

Autism Spectrum Disorder. How do Maltese Care Services respond?

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-171
Author(s):  
Damian Spiteri ◽  
Jessica Borg
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Of Care ◽  
The Impact

Autism Spectrum Disorder can be particularly distressing to families. Care-givers who operate in the Maltese social care sector need to be responsive to the underlying factors that bring about this distress; including the impact that the disorder has on a person’s development and the constraints associated with the social stigma that ASD tends to elicit on community and neighbourhood levels. The management of care services needs to heighten the social care sector’s responsiveness by understanding the stressors and achievements associated with working in this sector; as well as by remaining regularly updated about how any services offered can be further developed.

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