SCWK2009 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Productivity Commission, Bringing Them Home
15 Aug 2018
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Preparing for culturally responsive and inclusive social work practice in australia. Social workers acknowledge the aboriginal and torres straight islander peoples, first. Australians: commit to understand the historical an contemporary disadvantage, acknowledge strengths, capacities, abilities and contributions that aboriginal and torres. Straight islander peoples make to wider society: responsible for ensuring that their practice is culturally responsive, safe and sensitive. Social workers employed by government were involved in and implemented policies that adversely impacted on indigenous australians, most notable in relation to child welfare. Child welfare: bringing them home report concluded that "non one indigenous family escaped the effects of forcible removal" June 20 2016 -> productivity commission, 16846 indigenous children has been removed since apology: 11000 were placed with strangers, 15455 aboriginal children in care. Safe people -social workers need to be able to: build relationships based ontrust, work from a strengths-based and anti-oppressive persepective, demonstrate respect, reciprocity and flexibility.
