Social Work Ideals and Realities - Essay Example

Download file to see previous pages... This is essential so that the showered help by the social workers does not get confined to a single sector, group, area or region of the nation but results in development of one and all. Thus, it is ideal for the social workers to aim for that impartial stage of mind and work, where desire to serve dominates their investment to the society. But the question arises, is it really realistic to put to practice this most cherished ideal of provision of help to one and all - with NO distinction whatsoever.
The reality always has a different and ugly story to tell. Influence from the power dynamics in the society is that external factor which can be completely deleted by the perfect alone. The attempts that are made or said to made for the most needful, fail to reach their doors. A social worker ends up negotiating and compromising, sometimes preferentially and many - a -times forcefully. His desire to help the real decays below the burden of power dynamics of the society. And unfortunately, the rich and advanced England, is no exception to this.
In this essay we discuss about the New Deal, the different provisions it aims to provide to various disadvantaged groups of the British society and how it crumbles and kneels on the face of reality. It is not the failure of New Deal alone that is of proof to the forced inabilities of social workers, but since decades, every society has met with such numerous so-called ineffective but portrayed to be effective means for the welfare of the society. The rich becomes richer, the poor become poorer. People of a certain ethnic group and region dominate the society and even the steps to uplift the society have their benefit partial.
We, in this essay put forth the disadvantages of the New Deal. Though the discussion is broadly based on the New Deal, it aims to present the existent truth in the scholarly sentence that states, "In mediating between the marginalised and the mainstream, practioners find themselves negotiating with a diverse and unequal social order, and in so doing, need to orientate themselves to the power dynamics permeating British Society" (Davies et al, 2004, p. 13).
However, this truth should never be a prescription for social work practice within agencies. The mind and soul of he who aims to serve the British society as a social worker should be inclined to the goal of achieving self-satisfaction by means of supporting the right, helping the needy, and in so doing knowing no bars. Ethics and conscience should be held high in working for the society. Thus, while presenting the existent truth of social order we believe that the resultant awareness won't let it forever remain the dominant truth of any society. And each social worker shall be prescribed to yield to NO external interfering forces while serving mankind.
Ideal -The New Deal as a step to reform
In May 1997, International Labour Organisation (ILO) unemployment in the UK stood at 2 million and there were 1.6 million people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) (Department of Work and Pensions, 2004). The JSA process by itself was not enough to encourage people to job. Thus, before the birth of New Deal in 1997, programme help was mostly limited to supporting unemployed people into work. And, though those who benefited from JSA had precisely agreed to actively seek work, a great number of them remained inactive ...Download file to see next pagesRead More