Human services: history and structures
George Clarke
3 hours per week * First semester * Caulfield
The history of the development of welfare services in Australia. The present pattern of the distribution of services. Changes in the attitudes underlying the provision of services - from charity to rights and from residual to developmental. The emergence of the welfare state and the subsequent retreat from it. Social policy and its application across a range of welfare issues.
Assessment
Written reports and essays (4500 words): 100%
Recommended texts
Graycar A and Jamrozik A How Australians live Macmillan, 1989
Jones M A The Australian welfare state 3rd edn, Allen and Unwin, 1990