Ethics serve to provide a set of values and aspirations for professionals to try and fulfill. Ethical frameworks serve to aid professionals in dealing with the ethical dilemmas, prejudices and gray areas that are encountered in everyday work. This is especially pertinent in the health and social care sectors (Charleton 2014). This assignment will debate an ethical dilemma regarding the implementation of a youth work programme within a school setting. Ethics will be defined and its central importance to the social care sector will be highlighted. A case study will be summarized. Following this the issues and themes arising from the dilemma will be critically analysed. These themes include, autonomy, coercion, paternalism with the moral justification
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Paramount to this the professional must, at all times, be trustworthy in their relationship with the service user (Charleton 2014). A code of conduct is intended to act as a guide and reference for professionals in support of everyday decision-making. CORU, the Regulating Board for Health and Social Care, will set out the standards for Irish social social care. The predominant function of social care ethics and professional codes of conduct are to protect the public (CORU …show more content…
Curriculum based youth work is an example of structured youth work, which can be identified by the characteristics of having a distinct target group and a tightly structured time frame. The sessions are closely managed and facilitated by adults as opposed to young people and the aims and learning outcomes are predetermined prior to the sessions (Sapin 2013, p. 30). Research in the youth sector argues that preventative activities, like Mind Out, can only be described as youth work if the programme is built on the self-identified interests and needs of young people. Dialogue between a worker and a young person is essential to creating a space where the service user feels they are able to express themselves and excersize their freedoms. Young people have the right to contribute to the design and implementation of the programmes they participate in. The objective should be to engage young people in undertaking the organization and facilitation of activities. Practitioners must facilitate young people to have ownership and control over any plans or strategies that affect their lives. Young people must be given the freedom to choose what they are involved in; otherwise the service can become an excersize in social control (Sapin 2005; Henry et al. 2010; Harland & Morgan 2006; Davies
Paramount to this the professional must, at all times, be trustworthy in their relationship with the service user (Charleton 2014). A code of conduct is intended to act as a guide and reference for professionals in support of everyday decision-making. CORU, the Regulating Board for Health and Social Care, will set out the standards for Irish social social care. The predominant function of social care ethics and professional codes of conduct are to protect the public (CORU …show more content…
Curriculum based youth work is an example of structured youth work, which can be identified by the characteristics of having a distinct target group and a tightly structured time frame. The sessions are closely managed and facilitated by adults as opposed to young people and the aims and learning outcomes are predetermined prior to the sessions (Sapin 2013, p. 30). Research in the youth sector argues that preventative activities, like Mind Out, can only be described as youth work if the programme is built on the self-identified interests and needs of young people. Dialogue between a worker and a young person is essential to creating a space where the service user feels they are able to express themselves and excersize their freedoms. Young people have the right to contribute to the design and implementation of the programmes they participate in. The objective should be to engage young people in undertaking the organization and facilitation of activities. Practitioners must facilitate young people to have ownership and control over any plans or strategies that affect their lives. Young people must be given the freedom to choose what they are involved in; otherwise the service can become an excersize in social control (Sapin 2005; Henry et al. 2010; Harland & Morgan 2006; Davies