Overview

This topic explores how the law and the human services interact in practice. It will examine the legal, ethical and regulatory frameworks that apply to both practitioners and their clients, including how innovation and technology is impacting human service provision, workers and clients.

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Aims

This topic aims to orient students to the interface between human service practice and the law and related systems. Students will be introduced to the legal and regulatory frameworks and systems that both inform human service practice and provide human service workers with the authority to act in service users' lives. Students will be exposed to how innovation and technology is impacting human service provision, workers and clients. Attention will also be paid to the laws that regulate and protect human service professions and practitioners to enable students to apply law relevant to the human services.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Assess the legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks that apply to the human services
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Decide how legal, ethical and human service imperatives interact in the context of case studies
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Analyse legal and ethical issues that arise in human services practice
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Evaluate how legislation and case law might apply in a human service context

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