The Importance Of Social Care

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The mcphails Social Policy Essay. The importance of the Social Care Values of dignity, privacy, safety, choice, realising potential and equality and diversity in dealing with this family as Betty receives personal care of washing her hair and bathing her, so when this personal care is taking place you should respect dignity. You should not make her feel any less uncomfortable than she already feels and you should also do the personal care in a private place away from everyone. Choice should also be given whether she has a preference in who gives her personal care, if she would rather two females than a man then that wish should be respected and granted. Realising potential is getting practiced Michael is still going to work and even though…show more content…
Doctors, Politicians use their power in a way that can control the way that the society around them works. It is seen in society that these people use their power to their advantage and ensures that society is run in the way that they would like and what would suit them best without considering the people around them. In the Mcphails case the people that they see as in “power” would be the social workers, doctors and carers. The family aren’t used to dealing with people of power in their old lifestyle so they will have to learn and adapted to a whole new different way of living. They now receive different types of care packages from the social services, although people of our community would see this as a positive thing happening for the family, they might not look at it in this way as they are used to caring for their own family on their own without any help from anyone else. The pressure they may feel to live by the book, this pressure could be seen as coercion as the family really didn’t have a choice but to change their way of lifestyle due to ill health of some family members they simply couldn’t travel and carryon the traveller lifestyle. Also the Social Services are making the children go to school which is the norm of our community, in a traveller community education is a choice. All these different things from care packages to education have…show more content…
Travellers believe that the men should go out and bring in the food whilst the woman stay home cook, clean and look after the children which means they can’t work. A traveller working woman is unheard of however, if the woman was to get a job it would help the finances but it would be seen that the man was a “failure.” This would of been a way for the family to improve their style of life but because of their background it is very unlikely to
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