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Conventional social work limits social workers to operating within a full acceptance of regulations, rules, obligations, and laws, along with a perceived shift away from social justice efforts (Kallen et al., 1968; Mullaly, 2007).
Aug 21, 2024 · The Elizabethan Poor Laws set a precedent for government intervention in social welfare and introduced concepts that would influence social work for centuries. However, they also reinforced the idea of moral judgment in the distribution of aid, a concept that would later be challenged by Social Workers advocating for a more compassionate and ...
Aug 3, 2023 · Policy advocacy plays a vital role in social work, as it allows professionals to address systemic issues and effect meaningful change, such as facilitating equitable access to opportunities, services, and resources (Saxena & Chandrapal, 2022).
- Limiting Police Powers
- Women's Reproductive Rights
- Recognition of The LGBT Community
- Linguistic Rights For Francophones Outside Quebec
- Strengthened Aboriginal Rights
- Judicial Activism
One of the more significant changes over the past 30 years has been court-enforced legal safeguards and accountability for policing, Des Rosiers observes. There were a number of charter cases that codified these changes, including the Oakes case in 1986 in which the Supreme Court overturned a law that had required the accused to disprove a presumpt...
The key decision in this instance was the 1988 Morgentaler case, in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Criminal Code sections on abortion were unconstitutional. By the time of that ruling there was only one woman on the Supreme Court — Bertha Wilson, the first woman to be appointed. Siding with the majority, "she anchors her decision in what pr...
Through a series of decisions the courts have recognized rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Canadians, despite the fact that sexual orientation is not specifically mentioned in the charter itself. In the 1998 Vriend decision, the court read sexual orientation into Alberta's human rights legislation, confirming earlier decisions prohib...
Through a series of provincial and Supreme Court decisions, the charter gave francophones outside Quebec access to French schools, school boards and even hospitals. Canada now has a generation called "section 23 kids" who were educated in these schools, where numbers warranted. Des Rosiers considers those decisions to have been among the most impor...
The charter's recognition of Aboriginal Peoples "sent a very important message," Renée Dupuis, the former chief commissioner of the Indian Specific Claims Commission, told CBC News last year. The other amendment to the Charter, to section 25, was on aboriginal land claims. The charter has imposed on governments a duty to consult aboriginal peoples ...
For Rainer Knopff, the biggest change, institutionally, is that the charter "amounts to a significant transfer of policy making to the courts," especially in an area that could be described as "morality issues." "The charter has meant that the courts have a major influence on those things in a way they wouldn't have previously," he says. McPhedran ...
The relationship between social work and the law remains strongly contested. The law can be problematic in terms of its purposes and outcomes. The law can be used for social engineering, the promotion of particular ideologies and the preservation of power structures.
- Suzy Braye, Michael Preston-Shoot
- 1998
Jun 16, 2022 · A survey by the CCSWR (2012) found that entry level social workers do not have adequate clinical practice training and are also lacking in clinical knowledge and skills. This article is a critical analysis of the regulation of clinical social work practice in Canada.
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Jan 2, 2019 · Despite changes in contemporary conditions, since its beginnings, social work continues to adapt its focus to challenge forms of injustice, disadvantage and social conditions that impact the well-being of individuals, families, groups, communities and societies. Download chapter PDF.
