Citizenship and Welfare in the UK Education System

This paper explores the concepts of citizenship and social welfare in the UK education system. The main body discusses welfare provision and citizenship education, including the Education Welfare Agency, the National Curriculum, and the British National Act of 1948. The analysis section examines the relationship between welfare and citizenship, including Marshall Citizenship Theory and the right of residence.

LC564 Citizenship
Community and Welfare

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.................................................................................................................................................3
Welfare provision....................................................................................................................................3
Citizenship...............................................................................................................................................5
ANALYSIS.....................................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Community members have an array of different and culture roles and responsibilities as a
result of their participation in that community, which are separate from their nation citizen status.
Welfare is a term that refers to a variety of policy measures aimed at helping people and families
that do not earn sufficient cash to live. Various social welfare programmers include
accommodation, clothing, hospital attention, and cash aid for everyday living. For example, an
individual born in the United Kingdom does have the same rights and liberties while those who
have previously settled in the nation. Similarly, a community is a collection of people who have
something in mind, such as faith, identification, location, conventions, and practices. It is a
community that is rooted in a single area and whose daily lives need each person to interact with
and rely on other members. In the same way, welfare refers to a condition of enjoyment,
happiness, or great health in the face of adversity (Anderson and Williams, 2019). The goal of
this paper is to examine how concepts of citizenship and modes of social welfare have altered
and developed in the case of Education throughout time. Early school, post secondary,
additional schooling, and higher education are the four main sections of the UK education
system. Children in the United Kingdom are required to attend elementary and middle school
from the age of five until they reach the age of sixteen. Schools in the United Kingdom are all
either state schools, which are government-funded and free to all students, or private universities,
which charge tuition to the students' parents. This report focuses on the problem of education's
welfare providing and civic components.
MAIN BODY
Welfare provision
Education is a social institution that gives expert information to society's members, such as
fundamental facts, key competencies, and values of a society. One of the most essential
advantages of education is that it enhances people's lives while also assisting current societal
smooth operation. It assists people in becoming good humans, obtaining a higher-paying career,
and demonstrating the distinction between goodness and wrong. Education teaches us the
industriousness while also assisting us in our growth and development. As a result, by
understanding and obeying freedoms, rules, and restrictions, we may help to form a good society
to live in. In the United Kingdom, educational equality means that all pupils have the same

opportunity. Equity, on the other hand, is concerned with satisfying the specific requirements of
students who may be at a disadvantaged. Students with low homes are currently struggling to
keep up with their schoolwork. If it's due to a shortage of childcare costs or slow internet
connectivity, there will still be equity issues in education to contend with.
When education emphasizes on wellbeing, curriculum learning results will increase as
well, because happy students will know better. Higher education institutions must refocus on
their aims for a good world and be possible to alter their focus away from 'paper success' and
more towards 'life performance.' Any feature of a child's education or learning setting that has a
major influence on that child's capacity to acquire proper teaching as specified by any current
laws, rule, guideline, or good educational practice is referred to as academic welfare. The
Education Welfare Agency (EWS) is a specific degree customer support that aims to assist youth
and families in maximizing their educational opportunities. We collaborate with youngsters, their
parents, institutions, other educational facilities, and also governmental and non-profit
organizations. Any feature of a student's future or learning setting that has a major influence on
that child's capacity to receive proper teaching as specified through any current laws, regulation,
guideline, or sound educational practice is referred to as academic welfare (Bian, Kang and Zhao,
2020).
Education facilities in the United Kingdom have been repositioned toward aims of
making a stronger community but have the ability to change focus beyond academic
achievement to performance advantage. Whipping around Strategy is an educational welfare
programme designed to meet the equality problems of disadvantaged kids. Vital services that
encourage responsibility, progress, and confidence are required for children. The goal of
educational welfare provision is to involve youngsters from all origins and promote their
engagement. This provides every kid with an excellent balance to gain knowledge and the ability
to express their views or comments, so strengthening their depth of knowledge and contributing
to the provision of critical services. Furthermore, Government Aid is a welfare provision inside
this area of education that develops ideals as well as significance in purpose of offering support
in the form of cash in order to address the problem of equality.
The Education department is in charge of organising and delivering education for kids of
all ages in the United Kingdom. It is responsible for education reforms and also internships. It

may be in charge of children's health and education services, which includes early learning,
universities, additional education policies, vocations, and so on. The governmental agency
collaborates with state agencies, communities, and non-profit organizations to plan and execute
educational welfare services with the goal of giving all students equal opportunity regardless of
their household or cultural conditions. The National Curriculum is a social policy in the United
Kingdom that ensures consistency and full equality in acquiring educational material and quality.
In the United Kingdom, welfare assistance in the field of education organises and delivers a
foundation for services for kids aged 5 to 18. According to the welfare provisions, a variety of
institutions, including independent schools, academy, private universities, and others, construct
and organise their own curricula in the hopes of supporting learners in developing as well as
obtaining new information and studying for a brighter tomorrow. Surveillance is used in
educational welfare programmes in a variety of ways, ranging from measuring students'
attentiveness to checking their punctuality. Monitoring processes and techniques in the United
Kingdom are continually developing, with an increasing emphasis on fostering equal educational
opportunities (Escadas, Jalali and Farhangmehr, 2019).
Voluntary organisations accomplish their goals by a variety of actions, including offering
services or even other kinds of personal assistance and guidance to the populations they assist,
including such maintaining a homeless center or offering professional counsel. Lengthy or
structural transformation is also a goal for some. The influence of the changing policy
environment on volunteer groups is discussed. It also implies that powerful social national policy
necessitates the government's recognition and nurturing of the unique characteristics and
achievements of the charity sector. Voluntary Organizations and Social Welfare in the United
Kingdom is necessary literature for anybody concerned in the establishment and implementation
of welfare state, not just those researching, operating in, or with the volunteer industry in the Uk.
Citizenship
A high-quality civic education may help students get the information, abilities, as well as
attitudes they need to participate fully and actively in civilization. Citizenship education, in
particularly, should promote students' sharp awareness and comprehension of politics,
governance, as well as how regulations are produced and enforced. Citizenship education
provides students with the information, abilities, and attitudes necessary to participate fully in

community as effective and active residents. Government, elections, legislature, and elections are
among the topics covered by students, as are personal freedoms, fairness, mass communication,
the legislation, and the economics. From 1991, citizenship has been part of the public education
in England and Wales, and it's been obligatory in high schools until 2002. Citizenship education
is an important part of SMSC when it is adequately designed, delivered, and evaluated.
Citizenship education provides students with the information, abilities, and attitudes
necessary to participate fully in community as useful and productive citizens. Citizenship is a
compulsory foundational topic in England's high schools, according to the Core Curriculum.
Citizenship education is divided into 3 areas, as per the 1998 Crick Report: cultural and ethical
accountability, public outreach, and politics knowledge (Ferreira, Jalali and Ferreira, 2018).
Citizenship education is provided in high schools throughout the United Kingdom in a
range of methods: as a compulsory subject in England and Northern Ireland, as a non-
compulsory topic in Wales, and as a bridge subject in Scotland. In England, the education
process is didactic and specific topic, but in other countries, thought the entire techniques and
practical training have taken hold. Citizenship education in Northern Ireland arose from the
desire to provide a strong foundation on which to build. England, Wales, and Scotland have all
viewed it as a viable remedy to the poor political engagement of young folks, but Wales and
Scotland have also utilized CE to strengthen their cultures. Education has been built on
democracy and participatory teaching - learning approaches that acknowledge children and
teenagers as participants now, rather than in the future. It's why management and judgment
procedures are open and participatory, incorporating students and the larger school environment;
however it should be emphasized that many initiatives, such as student organizations, have not
yet been required.
In the United Kingdom, the British National Act of 1948 granted all British countries the
identity of British citizens and acknowledged their freedom to work, reside in the kingdom, and
take their children alongside them. The statute stipulates that a large number of individuals
automatically become citizens of the United Kingdom without having to apply. Citizenship
education provides people with the skills and information to comprehend, criticize and interact
with modern democracy, which includes the journalism, business, government, civilized society,
and laws.

Citizenship education provides students with the information, talents, and understanding
they need to be engaged and accountable members of society. In England, citizenship is a
compulsory foundation topic in high schools, according to the National Curriculum. Citizenship
education is divided into three parts, as per the Crick Report from 1998: cultural and ethical
accountability, public outreach, and politics knowledge. The goal of social inclusion is to
improve the conditions under which individuals and communities may function in society by
increasing the skills, opportunity, and respect of those who are marginalized because of their
identity. It's important for an user's respect, protection, and the chance to live a decent life.
Citizenship's ability to be socially responsible is now assisting individuals and organizations in
eliminating inequities.
The third option is to promote opportunity quality while also reducing prejudice. In
today's world, the principle of equal is critical for equitable and inclusive citizenship since it
ensures that all citizens are treated equally under the law, forbids discriminating on a broad basis,
and treats all people equally in terms of involvement and work. The right guarantees that every
person has an equal opportunity to make more to general societal growth. Solidarity, which
highlights interconnectedness between individuals and social groups and allows citizens to
enhance the safety of everyone by engaging to them in multiple events, is also another attitude
that influences social involvement among individuals. It is the basic principle of mass
bargaining, which is built on people' precautions are taken. The government is a unique entity
that serves the interests of the entire community or a certain social class. The state arises as a
series of stages of evolving civilization in terms of social involvement among individuals.
Citizens' freedom is upheld by the organization by giving them with specific sorts of privileges
that motivate them to participate in society. It also maintains acceptable restraints and legitimate
restrictions in society's people so that they would not engage in actions that damage others while
maintaining their independence. Furthermore, the state provides gave rise to citizens in terms of
social involvement, allowing for the development of aptitude and aptitude.
ANALYSIS
The relationship between welfare and citizenship has been studied and shown to have altered
and developed over time. The objective of strong involvement for full citizens is to keep the
welfare state alive. Marshall Citizenship Concept is a citizenship theory that establishes the

government's responsibility to society to its people. It's a title given to those who are fully
integrated into the neighborhood. Residents have the same rights and responsibilities as non-
citizens. The notion is linked to the inclusion of individual’s part of the social contract to
learning in the framework of the educational arena. Marshall Citizenship Theory is related to a
type of welfare support inside the area, which is state funding to individuals for the children's
education. It is consistent because educational institutions are impacted by social traditions,
economic conditions, and democracy, all of which focus on school in terms of wealth creation,
classes, and other factors. Marshall Citizenship Theory is thought to alleviate inequitable worries
about education for individuals by giving equal chances or rights to attend school, which
contributes to the incorporation of entitlements in welfare systems. Inside the United Kingdom,
democracy economic transfer and federal programs to assist low-income households or residents
in gaining right to schooling are helping to shape their destiny.
The "right of residence" is the right to dwell in the United Kingdom without being subject to
immigration rules. Section 2 of the Immigration And nationality act of 1971 defines this term. It
is the freedom to "stay in, and enter and then go into and out of the United Kingdom without
impediment or restriction." The right of residence appears to exist but because of a series of
legislative proposals enacted in the 1960s and 1970s to limit the mobility of British subjects into
the United Kingdom, a designation that was lengthened (as to if they enjoyed it or not) to
community members of independent Former colonies and Citizens of the United Kingdom and
Settlers.
Earlier theories of citizenship, such as the Educational Theory of Global Citizenship,
aimed to equip diverse learning styles to take significant roles in building more accepting, safe,
stable, and maintain contact regionally and globally. The approach relies on training categories
such as intellectual, affective, and cultural development. Adjustments in welfare provision, such
as the Whipping Around Strategy, which provides full relatives actions in response to educators
for youngsters with behavior problems and accepting types of learners, have harmed privileges
pertaining to the Educational Theory of Global Citizenship, which addresses the problems of
commodity inequity and disagreement in schooling.

CONCLUSION
Based on the facts supplied, it can be stated that education welfare comprises a wide array of
services aimed at those who struggle to maintain a respectable and educational level of life.
Equity worries for education are a basic problem that inhabitants of a nation confront in the
context of teaching and learning. In planning and educating people, social assistance, the
Whipping Around Strategy, and Government Help play vital roles. Citizenship is a legal position
that serves as a foundation for social or economic participation, community involvement, and a
feeling of connection. Individuals' social engagement is informed by essential principles and
ideals such as individual accountability, fairness, and cooperation.

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