Task Description:

In this task, you will be asked to demonstrate the impact of a policy or legal context on a population group using their lived or living experience as a guide.

This task should be completed in three steps:

1: Select a policy or legal context from the unit’s content or from your own research

2: Explore its impact on affected members of the population through blog posts, media articles, research items or other outputs which describe their lived or living experience

3: Produce a written assignment which describes:

The local or national debates informing the policy/legal context;

The role of social and political power in the legislative response; and

The impact of the policy/legal context on the population group using voices from that group

While you may suggest beneficial changes to the policy and legal context, this is not required and should not form the basis of your submission.

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 4

Weight:

20 %

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Task Description:

In Assessment Task 2, you will be introduced to skills in advocacy and the adaptive support through a grant proposal on behalf of a Tasmanian social work organisation.

This assessment task has two elements:

1: Agency Visit

During the semester, you will visit a social work agency and explore their structure and operations. You will also discover how contexts impact their work. Your unit coordinator will provide you with a list of potential questions to help guide the second section While you may wish to take notes during this visit, this aspect is not directly assessed.



2: Grant Application

Following your visit, the unit coordinator will provide you with examples of grant opportunities modelled the Australian Council of Social Services’ Community Grants Program.

Responding on behalf of the organisation you have just visited, explain:

How the organisation already functions in relation to the grant opportunity’s Terms of Reference

If appropriate, how their functions may be constrained by the fiscal context in which they operate

How the organisation might use the funding in the grant opportunity to respond to the Terms of Reference more effectively, either through a new program or an extension of their current functions

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 9

Weight:

40 %

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Task Description:

In Assessment Task 3, you will choose a Senate Inquiry (or other parliamentary committee) from a state or federal parliament and craft a response. This list of Senate Inquiries are linked to the unit’s themes, and will be available on the unit’s MyLO webpage. You may choose to respond to the inquiry from an individual (expert) perspective or from the perspective of an organisation (including the organisation you visited in Assessment Task 2).

In your submission, you should respond to one or more of the inquiry’s Terms of Reference by:

Exploring how the issue has been historically constructed by debates in the media, in parliament, or by other actors (e.g. advocacy groups);

Detailing how this impacts outcomes for social work client groups using a synthesis of their lived experience and broader data sources (if appropriate);

Recommending one or more improvement/s that could be achieved through a new or amended policy

Explaining how these improvements will impact social work client groups; and

Integrating the principles of decolonisation and cultural responsiveness throughout the text

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 12

Weight:

40 %

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