BA (Hons) in SOCIAL CARE PRACTICE

make a portfolio as per the handbook

BA (Hons) in SOCIAL CARE
PRACTICE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Illustration on the type of service, funding, client group, access to the service and services
offered.........................................................................................................................................1
Place your agency within a theoretical context/model of practice..............................................2
Demonstrate your understanding of how you can practice safely and effectively within the
legal, ethical and practice boundaries of the social care profession............................................2
Outline the relevance of the CORU Registration Board and the Code Of Professional Conduct
and Ethics in relation to your practice.........................................................................................3
How does your organisation respect and uphold the rights, dignity and autonomy of every
service user?................................................................................................................................4
Identify the communication methods, including verbal and non- verbal methods and styles
present within your organisation. How did you adapt your style of working and what or who
supported you in doing this?.......................................................................................................4
Describe the role of policies and systems in place in your organisation to protect the health,
safety, welfare, equality and dignity of service users, staff and volunteers .Please include three
examples to include information in relation to policies that govern the organisation and make
specific reference to one external policy and the link to an internal policy ..............................5
Discuss what is the current data protection legislation and freedom of information legislation
underpinning your practice in your agency.................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Social care refers to an effective plan to provide care for welfare of vulnerable
individuals and groups of overall experiencing marginalisation, disadvantage and special
requirements. It includes the criteria of considering legal and ethical rules in terms of delivering
better services to people for their well-being (Knott and Scragg, 2016). In context of given
portfolio, it is based on the scenario of working as a social care practitioner in TU DUBLIN
Tallaght Campus to provide facilities for needy individuals. This assignment will focus on type
of services and theoretical context along with legal boundaries of practising. It will also include
the code of professional conduct and ethics as well as communications methods.
MAIN BODY
Illustration on the type of service, funding, client group, access to the service and services
offered
Social care workers provide a number of services in order to fulfilling the requirements of
individuals, communities and families. Social care worker work with a large range of individuals
such as children, families, patients and so on. Agencies like TU DUBLIN Tallaght Campus also
provide social care services such as offering services to communities, residential care, poor
children, hospitals and so on. Social work is a challenging profession as it requires range of
personal qualities such as understanding individuals, patience, resilience and tolerance.
Funding for such social care organisations are provided by different government
agencies. Local councils and adults social care in UK invest a large amount for providing funds
to the individuals. There are some volunteers also who tends to provide funds for the needy
people and families that need financial support. Respective organisation gets its funds from local
government (Baldwin, 2016).
Services offered by respective organization is supply by involving a range of social
workers. They help poor families and families with disabled children. They provide support to
vulnerable individuals mostly in the community. They offer free services to all citizens of the

country including all necessary facilities such as support and proper care and providing
medications and stuffs.
Place your agency within a theoretical context/model of practice
Models of practice in social care discuss about how social care workers can implement
theories. It provide with a blue print of how to help others and provide necessary support. It
helps in to create some kind of change in the services if required. Some of the theories in social
care practice are discussed below.
Systems theory: It basically describe human behaviour in terms of complex systems. It is
based on the idea that effective system can be achieved on the basis of individuals needs,
rewards, attributes and expectations. This theory can be implemented in TU DUBLIN Tallaght
Campus in order to educate students of social acre practice to teach them about all the basic
information about needs and requirements of individuals.
Social learning theory: This theory need to be implemented in respective agency. It will
help the students of respective organization to learn the basic learning process. It states that
learning occurs through observation and limitations. This theory explains that people learn
through observing others (Roland and Everington, 2016). Thus, theory will help social workers
to analyze if individual has been influence by others and to motivate them to pick the right track
in their life.
Demonstrate your understanding of how you can practice safely and effectively within the legal,
ethical and practice boundaries of the social care profession
Being a social worker, it is necessary to practice safely under the guidance of ethical, legal and
practice boundaries. There are number of legal and ethical boundaries set by government in order
to deliver services to individuals within a community. It is necessary to maintains such
boundaries to assure professional integrity and responsibility. General social care council in UK
is a legal boundary set for spacial workers. The key role of this council is to promote and set
standards of conducting social care practices (Pullon and et. al., 2016). Health and care
professional council is also a legal boundary in UK which sets some standards for education and
training of social care practitioners. They set basic standards for performance an professional
development of social workers.
Ethical boundaries should also be followed by social workers. Some of ethical boundaries
are core values of social workers, social justice, maintaining dignity of individuals, maintaining

confidentiality of individual information, importance of human relationships, competence and
integrity.
National association of social workers delegate assembly creates codes of ethics for
social workers. Such as:
 Establishing core values on which social work profession is based.
 Creating ethical standards that must guide social work practices and reflect core values.
 To initiate new workers, to the social care profession mission, values and ethical
principals.
 Providing ethical standards in order to held social work profession accountability.
Outline the relevance of the CORU Registration Board and the Code Of Professional Conduct
and Ethics in relation to your practice
The CORU registration board developed a framework code and ethics description of
standards across its professions. They represents the clear code integrated some principles. They
are responsible for regulating health and care professionals under the professional act. Their role
is to promote the people by encouraging professional education, training amongst health and
social care professions and professional conduct. They currently establish boards of professionals
including social care workers (Doel, Shardlow and Sawdon, 2017). The social workers are
required to register legally with CORU.
There are some code and ethics are conduct for professionals as the social workers are
work on their daily basis. There are some account of this code is required by employers of social
workers and that are below.
 They social workers should promote the independence of receivers. Their responsibility
is to protect the service users from any danger or any harm.
 Their responsibility is to respect the rights of receivers so that their behaviour cant harm
any other people during the services.
 The aim is to build and uphold the trust and confidence of the people in social care
services.
 They should protect the rights of individuals and promote the interest of users by
providing them a better services.
 They should take responsibility to hold up the knowledge and improving their skills for
service users.

How does your organisation respect and uphold the rights, dignity and autonomy of every
service user?
A social care practice is differ from social practice work, It belong to the professional
request of social work values, principles and techniques that more leading ends that helping
people and get touchable services, mental hygiene and counselling with persons, families or
group and units, helping groups and peoples then provide or improve social care practice.
Dignity is obsessed with how citizen thinks, feel and act in relation to the value or
deserving themselves and another. To treat with some other people by dignity is to goody them
as existence of quality in a way regard-full of them as valuable person (Rummery, 2017).
Determinant on dignity care is in the health conditions can impact people personal identity by
consequence on body representation or utility or people can happening irritation and loss of
sureness found that a serious sickness uncertainty about diagnosis.
Rights are most relevant when you takes health and care services in social care practice
that is Article 8- the right to respect for private and family life. And other article 5 is the right to
liberty as well as article 3 the right not be tortured or treated in an inhuman or degrading way.
Autonomy in the social care practice, although there are many assorted explanation of
autonomy, there is some general agreement about the term. This involves respecting the person
privacy, dignity and their choices.
Identify the communication methods, including verbal and non- verbal methods and styles
present within your organisation. How did you adapt your style of working and what or
who supported you in doing this?
Communication is the social work which shows types of communication types, method,
measures practical by social workers during central physical phenomenon with day to day
pattern at micro mezzo and macro levels. It is specify as the process that thoughts or feelings are
are sent either verbally, non verbally, or virtually systems or groups. There are several types of
communication that use on daily basis: non-verbal, verbal written as visual (Baldwin, 2017). All
types of communication, they are essential and how can better them for success in their career.
The impressive skills of communication are most significant section of social worker should
communicate with customer to increase information and provide captious information and take
essential decisions. A social worker may not be able to acquire or communicate data however,
causation damaging effects to client. Some skills of verbal and non verbal that is listening ,

getting information, non-verbal behaviours, building trust, handling conflict. Good non-verbal
abstraction have facial explicit, eye contact, posture, tone of voice also necessary on the other
hand verbal through various quality measures and modular.
As I am a social practitioner able to adapt any workplace and try to keep fast rate during
work shift to stay focussed while additive tasks and my linear unit and my mentor are supported
very well and very glad to work with other employees and learn new things and gain more
knowledge by them.
Describe the role of policies and systems in place in your organisation to protect the health,
safety, welfare, equality and dignity of service users, staff and volunteers .Please include
three examples to include information in relation to policies that govern the organisation
and make specific reference to one external policy and the link to an internal policy
The role of policies which are conduct in organisation are placed to protect the risk which
may develop any type of outcomes. The policies are build-up to ensure the health, safety of
employees which may be affected by an organisation. The policies are required when there is
diversity of interest are their they can comply with employ as well as with the associated
organisation. The policies are used to strengthened the dignity, health of service users (Waller,
Masterson and Evans, 2017). From the implication of these policies, it save time when a new
problem arises during the services care. With the use of policies in an organisation it clarify the
functions and responsibilities of service providers with respect to the service users. There are
three examples of policies which can be use with in authorized organisation and they are below.
Workplace security policies :- This policy is to protect not only the people but it also
protect the intellectual properties. Policies can cover the procedures including use of ID cards so
that no other people come in the organisation in order to harm users.
Equal opportunity policies:- This policy works on the principle of promotion of fair
treatment in an organisation. Their aim is to encourage unprejudiced behaviour at the workplace.
This policy decline inappropriate behaviour to the gender or any cultural beliefs of a person with
in an organisation (Clark, 2016). This policy is linked with the external sources as the
government provides such polices across the world.
Substance abuse policies :- Many companies make internally policies that no use of
drugs, alcohols are be used in an organisation. These policies outline the procedures that every
employees must follow.

Discuss what is the current data protection legislation and freedom of information legislation
underpinning your practice in your agency
The legislation plays an important role in respect of directing efforts of social care
practitioners in correct direction for increasing respective outcomes. It includes one of the
important components which is favourable to maintain the confidentiality of data related to
patient. However, it is necessary for social care practitioners to follow policies and regulations
related to protect patient information. In context of given organisation, it is essential for social
care workers to focus of relevant legislation for securing the data in appropriate manner. Thus
the appropriate legislation is mentioned here.
Data Protection Act 2018 – This can be considered as an effective as well as efficient
regulation which encourage social care professionals to protect the information related to
patients. It is very important to maintain privacy of data because a minor medical issues is
responsible for developing major societal problem which is suitable for patient's rest of the life
(Gould, 2016). However, this legal rule states to follow relevant data protection principles
including data use fairly, lawfully & transparently. It should be only used in specified, adequate
and limited manner if necessary. It is also essential to gather, access, store and process the
relevant information in accurate and private way.
CONCLUSION
Considering the above portfolio, it has been summarised that social care practitioners
provide specific care facilities to desired individuals for supporting them to overcome. It includes
the criterion of following data protection act and ethical principles like autonomy, confidentiality
& beneficence to deliver appropriate care services for welfare of needy people.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Baldwin, M., 2016. Social work, critical reflection and the learning organization. Routledge.
Baldwin, M., 2017. Care Management and Community Care: Social Work Discretion and the
Construction of Policy: Social Work Discretion and the Construction of Policy.
Routledge.
Clark, C., 2016. Evidence-based practice and professional wisdom. In Towards Professional
Wisdom (pp. 61-78). Routledge.
Doel, M., Shardlow, S. and Sawdon, D., 2017. Teaching social work practice: A programme of
exercises and activities towards the practice teaching award. Routledge.
Gould, N., 2016. Introduction: the learning organization and reflective practice–the emergence of
a concept. In Social work, critical reflection and the learning organization (pp. 11-20).
Routledge.
Knott, C. and Scragg, T. eds., 2016. Reflective practice in social work. Learning Matters.
Pullon, S. and et. al., 2016. Observation of interprofessional collaboration in primary care
practice: a multiple case study. Journal of interprofessional care. 30(6). pp.787-794.
Roland, M. and Everington, S., 2016. Tackling the crisis in general practice.
Rummery, K., 2017. Disability, Citizenship and Community Care: A Case for Welfare Rights?:
A Case for Welfare Rights?. Routledge.
Waller, S., Masterson, A. and Evans, S.C., 2017. The development of environmental assessment
tools to support the creation of dementia friendly care environments: Innovative
practice. Dementia. 16(2). pp.226-232.