Policy Practice (Social work core subject )

Assessment #1 – Policy analysis paper 1
Policy Formation (2,000 words) 45% of total marks Individual Assignment.

STUDENT TO SELECT ONE (1) SOCIAL POLICY FOR IN-DEPTH AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS FOR ASSIGNMENTS 1 & 2 FROM THE LIST BELOW. THE SAME POLICY WILL BE USED FOR BOTH ASSIGNMENTS.
1. Unemployment
2, Housing / homelessness
3. Health
4. Disability
5. Aged
6. Indigenous

Using the Althaus et al., Australian Policy Handbook, 2012, 5th edn. and Bacchi, 2009, chapters 1 & 2 analyse your chosen policy.

1. Policy Formation

(a) Policy history and outline

(b) Identifying issues and problem representations – how are the issues framed?

(c) Issue drivers – what policy principles and values are at stake

(d) Media portrayal of the policy – issues, clients etc.

2. Policy analysis Althaus – especially the toolkit)

(a) Economic framework

(b) Social framework

(c) Political framework

(d) Legal framework

3. Critique the rationale, assumptions, (especially contradictions and inconsistencies) using Bacchi’s framework below

(a) Assess the impact on relationships between stakeholders

Bacchi’s framework

1. What is the problem?

2. What presuppositions or assumptions underline the problem

3. How has the representation come about?

4. What is left unproblematic in this problem representation?
4.1 Where are the silences?
4.2 Can the problem be thought about differently?

5. What effects are produced by this representation of the problem?

6. How / where has this representation of the problem been produced, disseminated, defended? How could it be questioned?

Policy topics / area
1. Housing
Homelessness
Public Housing

2. Health –
Private Health Insurance
Mental Health

3. Child / Youth –
Youth Allowance
Child Protection

4. Aged
Aged Care
Aged Pensions

5. Indigenous
Indigenous Health
Indigenous Welfare

Assessment #3 – Continuous assessment
Assessment 3 – continuous assessment (600-700 words)

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT – 10% WEIGHTING –
* Re-submission and re-marking is not applicable to assessment 3

Continuous requirements:
The submission of a written proposal for your policy analysis paper 1 in week 6 (approximately 500 words).

The proposal should include:

1. clear identification of the actual policy name/title as per policy product document/s
launch/implementation date

2. outline the key issues and issue drivers that you have selected to analyse their problematisations

3. discuss the focus you are taking through which conventional and alternative analytical frameworks

4. identify how the literature you have already sourced underpins your analysis

5. reference list

Instruction:
Instruction:
1. Write it in easier language and don’t use any difficult word.
2. The page number of in-text referencing must be quoted and match with the end-text referencing.
3. Plz must read all the uploaded file. Otherwise u will easily leave the topic idea and would fail for the course.
4. This is Social Work core subject assignment and use the idea from the attached powerpoint and course outline.
5. you have to use the referencing from required topic or e-reading as source or referencing and at least u must use on the assignment 3 at least 2-3 as well as 7-8 on the assignment 1 that shows very strong connection of the course to the tutor.

Textbook(s)
You will need continual access to the following text(s) to complete this course. The library does not hold multiple copies of the nominated text books. It is strongly recommended that you purchase the book(s).
Althaus, C, Bridgeman, P & Davis, G 2012, The Australian policy handbook, 5th edn, Allen and Unwin, NSW.
Reference(s)
ESSENTIAL ACCESS
You will need continual access to chapters 1 & 2 of the Bacchi 2009 text. It is strongly recommended that you print chapter 1 fro the e reader and photocopy chapter 2 through the Library’s High Demand access.
Bacchi, C., 2009, Analysing policy: what’s the problem represented to be? Pearson Education, French’s Forest. Chapter 1( eReading) and Chapter 2.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED (some chapters are in the e reader on the Course Home page)
Fawcett, B, Goodwin, S, Meagher, G & Phillips, R., 2010, Social policy for social change, Palgrave Macmillan, South Yarra
McClelland, A & Smyth P (eds) 2010, Social policy in Australia: understanding for action, 2nd edn. Oxford University Press, South Melbourne

Course Objectives
On completion of this course, students should be able to:
CO1. Investigate and analyse some of the major social policy orientations and assess the implications for policy design
CO2. Critically analyse the historical, international and changing contexts for policy action
CO3. Identify principles and processes of resource gathering, allocation and redistribution in the changing welfare state
CO4. Assess the impact of political economy on relationships between the public sector, third sector and citizens
CO5. Select and apply a framework for the analysis of Australian social policies

Course Content
The students will develop advanced skills in social policies analysis. Specifically, students will research and analyse social work and human service policies in relation to: policy cycles; policy planning, instruments, analysis, implementation and evaluation; resources allocation; equity and diversity; government and third sector relationships; global social policy and policy transfers, and policy activism.

Policy Practice is a follow on course from Australian Social Policy. This course enables you, the student, to develop an understanding of policy cycles, policy planning, policy analysis, policy implementation and evaluation. There will be a major emphasis on policy analysis and the under-lying agendas of particular policies. We will be looking at some of the major policies of the Australian government as well as global social policies. As a continuance of Australian Social Policy, we will also be looking at resource allocation, equity, and diversity from the Australian context. We will also look at the relationship between government and the third sector, the non-government organisations.
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