Exploring Professional Values in Community Services in Australia

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the community services sector in Australia, focusing on professional values, key domains, social justice, and social barriers. It explores the main domains of human services, including society, community, geographical, and practice field domains. The paper discusses the concept of social justice within the Australian social services system, emphasizing its role in supporting underprivileged individuals and reducing inequalities. It also examines social barriers affecting the sector, particularly concerning family support and social inclusion. Furthermore, the report delves into theoretical approaches underpinning professional community service work, highlighting the importance of community involvement. The conclusion summarizes the possibilities and limitations of social barriers within the Australian community, referencing academic resources and research findings.

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Introduction:
This study focuses on the research to the professional values in community service
work in Australia. The community services sector provides human services to the people
related with various challenges like the old aged people, people with various disabilities and
also provides services related to child protection and youth justice services. The later part of
this paper will briefly discuss about the main domains of human services all around the
country, the concept of social justices, the facing of social barriers by the people in the
community services sector in places and will form theoretical approaches understanding the
professional community service works.
Discussion:
The community services sector provides support and services to the individual, family
or group of people to sustain and maximise the nurturing possibilities regarding their
potential by enhancing the wellbeing of communities (Aggar et al., 2018). Though
community services are mainly related to develop the conditions of the individuals to provide
them services of institutional levels. The services related to this sector are mainly provided by
the government of Australia or the non - profit organizations in order to contribute in the
development of the community infrastructure of the country (Griffiths, 2016).
The Main Domains of Social Services:
There are some main domains of social and human services in the community
services sector, they are as follows –
Society Domain – The community services consists of many domain services related to
people from larger society. The community service practitioner needs to be located to the
services providing to the society. The services needs to be effective for the people to manage

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involvement between communities and the proper use of the institutional values and believes
are needed to be provided by the social workers (Aggar et al., 2018).
Community Domain – The human services social workers are needed to be aware of the
differences between communities that are being served with the services. The different
communities consists of different culture perspectives, thus the fundamental dimension of the
social services are to be provided with an overall health and well - being concerns of the
people from several communities (Briskman, 2016). Thus the practitioners are needed to be
well aware of the community and culture differences of the people they are serving within
having and forming a deep relationship with the human beings.
Geographical Domain – The social services practitioners are needed to be well aware of the
facts related to the geographical differences of the people of different regions. The relation in
between the people belonging from different regions consist different cultural backgrounds as
well as various point of views related to their gender, age, culture, race, life experiences,
beliefs, life cycle, personalities and relationships in between them. That factors do have an
effect in the processes of human services generated for the people with several challenges to
solve them and helps to socialize them in the bigger community sectors (Griffiths, 2016).
Practice Field Domain – The social services includes many field areas to cover, in order to
provide services to the people in need. Thus the services areas are included in various sectors
related to human development regarding the child protection, disability, family support,
mental health, domestic violence, community development, old aged care and migrant
support and refugee privileges as well as the services against sexual assault of poor human
beings (Alam & Imran, 2015). The practice field domain is put forward to help the
practitioner in the providing services to various sectors on the basis of society, community,
geography and the services that needs to be given to the people in order to help them create a

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better community and practice wisdom in the people (Taylor, Vreugdenhil & Schneiders,
2017).
The main four domain framework is created and used to identify the domain areas of
the social services sector to maintain their practice of the services reach all the people leading
life with different problems to fulfil their individual needs and provide them support and care.
The Concept of Social Justice:
This research paper will briefly discuss about how social justice is presented as an
evidence of social services to the people in need of them (Briskman, 2016). It is mainly a
concept of social services and its practices for the underprivileged people of a country who
needs a helping hand in order to not just survive but live healthy and happily. Social justice
lies at the main core of Australian Social Services System. It also has a great history of
bonding with the social services in the history of Australia (Aggar et al., 2018). The main
objective of social justice is to pursue a framework dealing with the problems related to
social, economic, political, diversity and environmental problems concerned with the people
to achieve and encourage them of having self - esteem and confidence to claim for the basic
needs of life from the society and community. The effect of having the systems is resulted
into reducing the wealth and income inequalities between the people (Taylor, Vreugdenhil &
Schneiders, 2017).
The main aspects of Social Justice are like, it is multidimensional, sociological,
political and very complex in nature with the notions of having fair and equal emphasis on
both material and nonmaterial resources of life. The fundamental perspective of social justice
is to influence the understanding of the contemporary proposition and the paradigm of
distributing social goods to the underserved people suffering with inequalities to equalise the
social differences in order to create a socially healthy and diverse community for the people

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(Griffiths, 2016). The concept of social justice is mainly focused on the morality of the social
systems. The moral concept to have a universal, specific decisions in order to have right
decisions and judgements in the social activities of the social service practitioners.
Social Barriers in Community Service Sector:
The increased amount of social barriers and its applications to the policies and its
practices in Australia is deeply affecting the nuance view in the services related causes and its
effects of disadvantage (Taylor, Vreugdenhil & Schneiders, 2017). The concept of social
barrier is highly relative to the family supporting sector and the links in between them faced
by the parents and the children deeply effects the development of the human beings and their
wellbeing. It is also witnessed the impact of the social barriers on the community service
sector mainly on the parent and child relationship and their family function or programs
(Aggar et al., 2018). There are some potential barriers in the social and community services
sector related to the concept of family based support services. The social service practitioners
consider the barriers as a way of socially inclusive practices that challenges the processes
dealing with the community services. The practitioners in the social services sector in
Australia has an idea to promote social inclusion that are already engaging people are as
follows –
The social barriers are great opportunities to express the services and the programs
related to the contribution in the social inclusion and the agenda supports it in daily basis.
The social barriers can make a constructive picture on the barrier and the challenges
of society including the family bonding services and to those who are previously
disadvantaged through the time (Briskman, 2016).

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The social barriers can make a brand new perspective on the way to deal with
different communities and their different cultures to meet the potential necessities of the
families in need of privileges.
Theoretical approaches in Professional Community Service Work:
The key aspects of the community service work is depended on the processes of
community involvement and services including volunteerism, mainly in the social services to
promote the community service in broader aspects (Taylor, Vreugdenhil & Schneiders,
2017). The benefits of the promotion of involving of people in the services are many, but also
have many major drawbacks as well. This paper will briefly discuss about the theoretical
approaches in professional human social service works. The community service works seek a
greater involvement of people to join hands in order to make a healthier community and
social life.
The community services work is increasing in both national and international to make
the initiative popular throughout the world in order to create more awareness in the
communities and create bonding among them. The government of Australia is giving efforts
to increase the involvement among the communities in order to create healthier
intercommunity services by the social service practitioners (Griffiths, 2016). The process of
social involvement is also getting pushed back due to the social working values and morals,
the broader political, social and industrial dynamics that eventually lowers the growth of
social work within the social and community services sector.
Conclusion:
This research paper deals with the academic resources related to the professional
values of community services sector in Australia. The research is based on mainly four
concepts related to the topic as the domains of human services, the main concepts of social

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justice, the main social barriers faced by the clients and the social service practitioners in the
community service sectors and the theoretical approaches underpinning the professional
community service works in the country. The main aspects of social services in the
community sector are like, it is multidimensional, sociological, political and very complex in
nature with clear motive consisting fair and equal emphasis on both material and nonmaterial
resources of life. Thus, the main domains researched on this study are consists of society,
community, geographical and the field of practicing social services have been briefly
researched in this study. Thus, the study concludes with the idea of having possibilities and
limitations of social barriers of the communities living in the country.

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