Neo-liberalism's Impact on Community and Human Services in Australia

This essay delves into the impact of neo-liberalism on child protection and human services in Australia. It begins by defining neo-liberalism and its core tenets, including the shift from public to private sector control. The essay explores the effects of these policies on child protection, particularly within the context of the Australian community. It examines both the positive and negative consequences of neo-liberal approaches, such as the privatization of services and changes in governmental regulations. The analysis includes an evaluation of relevant sources using the CRAAP test to assess their reliability and relevance. The essay highlights how neo-liberalism has affected areas like poverty, inequality, and access to essential services for children. It also examines the role of specific articles and viewpoints to support arguments about the implications of neo-liberal policies on vulnerable children and families. The essay's structure, including its topic sentences and planned arguments, is outlined, demonstrating a thorough understanding of the topic and its complexities.

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Table of Contents
Interpreting the topic........................................................................................................................1
Exploring the Topic.........................................................................................................................1
Finding relevant supporting source..................................................................................................2
Planning your essay.........................................................................................................................4
Taking the next steps.......................................................................................................................4
BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................................................................................................6

Interpreting the topic
For conducting essay the chosen topic is “Analysing the impact of Neo-liberalism on the
community and human service in Australia.” Under this topic the main concerns is about Child
protection. Neo-liberalism is about bridging economical, social and political studies which seeks
to transfers control of economic factor to privation sector from public sector for promoting free-
market capitalism which doesn't include governmental regulations, spending and public
ownership. But this Neo-liberalism highly affected the community as well as human services
offered within Australia toward the welfare of child protection. This is because children are
usually vulnerable to structured inequality within society due to poverty, background or other
related issues.
But despite of all this, Neo-liberalism has improved the human services toward child
protection by privatising the operations of several private organisation by reducing their policies
and legislation in operations. This in turn increase the profitability of private organisation and
turn their way toward performing CSR practices toward the welfare of community and
promoting a positive brand image at marketplace. This in turn has increased the development of
several community and welfare centres which work toward the development as well as
protection of children. In addition to this it also has some negative influence over child
protection as privation leads to increase in exploitation of children which results into poverty,
harassment as removal of regulation increased the corruption.
Exploring the Topic
Neo-liberalism approach gained importance in order to make opposition of policy
doctrine in order to aimed toward minimising the size as well as influence of state. This will help
in increasing the deregulation and promoting private enterprise to work freely without much
restrictions. Hence, neo-liberalism basically leads to selling off public goods like education and
other child development related services through private medium. This in turn increase the
economic inequality as well as social marginalisation in form of housing shortage, long term
unemployment, poverty related health issue etc. Hence, Neo-liberal has not leads to overall
improvement of children, instead of that it has widen the inequality between income and ethnic
group. This is because, before privatisation the main focus of government is over the
strengthening the families and focus on better inter-agency support within social welfare, health
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and education of children. But the structural economies and institutional changes under neo-
liberal regime that proves to be disadvantageous as it increases the inequality within the society
and leads to create more issues in childhood protection by increasing discrimination as well as
exploitation of children.
In order to gather this information there are number of key words that will be used which
help in gathering the information more effectively and quickly. These words include Neo-liberal,
child protection, impact of Neo-liberal over community, Human service, government,
privatisation, Neo-liberal policies, , Cultural and Social Studies etc.
Finding relevant supporting source
As per the article Privatising child protection presented by Nigel Parton, 2014,
Department for Education's recent proposal regarding outsourcing child protection services under
private companies such as G4S and Serco, describe about the services it offer to vulnerable
children as well as families. The number of registered child protection plan has also get increased
after privatisation.
But as per the article “Neoliberalism and Child protection” which is written by Martha
Knox Haly, 2019, The impact of neo-liberal policies within department get chaged with
protecting the most vulnerable members of society and those who are at risk of slipping into
poverty. The major disadvantage of outsourcing public welfare to the charitable sector or other
private organisation leads to increase in the exploitation of children as it result to increase in
corruption with the minimisation of regulation.
As per the view point of Gary Sponlander, Linda Martin, Lambert Engelbrecht, 2014,
within last three decades several society has experienced economical, cultural and political
changes which has transforming the community with the implementation of less regulations in
market with the help of neo-liberalism. But this is turn has increased the inequality in term of
economy, employment, poverty, child education etc.
According to view point of Steve Rogowski, 2013, Neo-liberalism has impacted over the
social benefit practices which created Vulnerabilities and new inequality have been created
within society. This in turn has increased the poverty among society which creates issues related
to children development, safety, health and many more.
CRAAP test
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It refers to the set of evaluation criteria which are applied over websites in order to
identify the reliability of particular sources. CRAAP test is acronym stands for Currency,
Relevancy, Authority, Accuracy and Purpose. In order to perform the investigation over
“Analysing the impact of Neo-liberalism on the community and human service in Australia”
following article is consider as more suitable. But in order to determine its relatability CRAAP
test has been performed which is mentioned below: Currency:- The information was posted on Nov.2012and was updated on29th May,2014.
This source use correct information about the specific topic. Relevancy:- The information is related to the topic. The intended audience is the students
and researcher and they appear to be interested in Analysing the impact of Neo-liberalism
on the community and human service. Authority:- The author of this source is Nigel Parton. The source given by the auhor is
trustworthy. It is a website and the source with URL is
https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2014/may/29/privatising-child-
protection-state-authoritarian Accuracy:- The information is gathered from a blog of author. The language given in this
is very easy to understood. Purpose:- The purpose of the information is to inform the audience about the impact of
Neo-liberalism on the community and human service. The purpose of information along
with author's view point are clear.
Use of source
Under this essay the concerned topic is “analysing the impact of Neo-liberalism over the
community and human service in Australia”. In this topic the main emphases is over child
protection and reason behind selecting the article “Privatising child protection” which is given by
Nigel Parton is that it contain more accurate and authenticated information. Apart from this it
also includes a comparison of public as well as private organisation in term of managing children
protection within the society. In order to use the information available in this webpage firstly, a
deep analysis would be performed over the information that is available within the web link.
After evaluating the information it would be then compare with the current knowledge as well as
content available through other sources in order to present more accurate and reliable
information within the essay. In addition to this, it also contain information about the way public
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sector manage the child protection and welfare along with the changes that are bring by Neo-
liberal practices. This in turn help in giving more authenticated information by comparing both
the sectors which help in clearing the information more effectively.
Planning your essay
Topic sentence:- Concept of Neo-liberalism
 It is a set of economic, political or religious practices which is consider as an strategy that
has been implemented in order to prevent the social conflicts and development of
community (Venugopal, 2015). Neo-liberalism is a kind of model which work toward bridging economics and political
studies that seeks to transfer control from public or governmental sector to private
organisation in order to promote free market capitalism which is not restricted with
governmental policies (Corry, 2014).
Topic sentence – Role of neo-liberalism in child protection
 Neo-liberal doesn't leads to overall improvement of children,despite of this it has
increased the inequality between society by differentiating in income and ethnic group
(Lonne and et. al., 2015). It has created several issues in term of housing shortage for people, increase in
unemployment, health issue related with poverty etc. (Parton, 2014).
Topic sentence:- Influence of neo-liberalism within child protection
 Neo-liberalism has a negative influence over child protection as it create economic
inequality among human community by giving birth to several issues such as increasing
rate of educational and health related services which reduces access of poor children to
services which are essential for development (Craig, 2016).
 Apart from this neo-liberal has positive impact over society as with the enhancement and
development of private organisations, concern of employees toward development of
children by creating care centres, orphans house etc. (Pacini-Ketchabaw and Taylor,
2015).
Taking the next steps
Before completing the essay, it is very essential to ensure that the information that will be
presented with the help of essay must be accurate and authenticated. For this an evaluation will
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be performed over the sources that are used for gathering the information to determine its
authenticity. In addition to this several sources will be compared as per the content presented in
them and then most appropriate one will be selected to work over essay. Apart from this the
objective of essay will be compared with the contain to determine that whether it will help in
accomplishing those goals. This will help in determining gap so that actions can be taken quickly
toward its improvement and then conclude the information effectively. For presenting
information more accurately addition research will also required for presenting updated data. For
performing work effectively over essay, additional academic sources are required which support
in concluding the findings much effectively.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books & Journals
Corry, O. (2014). From Defense to Resilience: Environmental security beyond neo‐liberalism.
International political sociology. 8(3). 256-274.
Craig, L. (2016). Contemporary motherhood: The impact of children on adult time. Routledge.
Lonne, B., Harries, M., Featherstone, B., & Gray, M. (2015).Working ethically in child
protection. Routledge.
Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., & Taylor, A. (Eds.). (2015). Unsettling the colonial places and spaces of
early childhood education. Routledge.
Parton, N. (2014).The politics of child protection: Contemporary developments and future
directions. Macmillan International Higher Education.
Venugopal, R. (2015). Neoliberalism as concept. Economy and Society. 44(2). 165-187.
Online
Parton. N. 2014. Privatising child protection. [Online] Available through:
<https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2014/may/29/privatising-child-
protection-state-authoritarian>./
Haly. K. 2019. Neoliberalism and Child protection. [Online] Available through:
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Sponlander. G., Martin. L., Engelbrecht, L., 2014. Implication of Neo-liberalism fro social
work. [Online] Available through:
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0020872814524964>./
Rogowski. S. 2013. Neoliberalism and social work [Online] Available through:
<https://policypress.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/neoliberalism-and-social-work-facing-
the-challenges/>./
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