What is Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Social Care?

This is one of the latest search questions reaching http://indibooks.co.uk/ and one that every social work and health and social care student will need to consider on their degree course.

There are several layers of discriminatory practice ranging from the personal to the institutional. The first incorporates practice based upon your own acknowledged or unacknowledged values, which may lead to discrimination when assessing service users and requesting services. These may include assumptions about the person's abilities or ethnic group or the way in which you may interpret their body language, which could have different cultural meanings compared to your own. Institutional racism or discrimination involves the rules, ethos, and organisational practice of the institution employing you or being used by the service user. A knowledge of the issues will be essential for anyone studying social care. Discussions can be found in many social work texts listed at http://www.indibooks.co.uk/ An example of a text focusing specifically on these issues can be seen at: http://www.indibooks.co.uk/index.php?productID=165

Please bear in mind that there are fashions and trends in theories, like anything else which can mask or underplay issues. The key focus in children's services should always be the welfare of the child.

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