SOCWORK 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Avail, Indep, System On A Chip
31 Oct 2013
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Fierce light will be shown in the last class before the exam for those who haven"t seen it. Discussion groups will take place next term for the extra credit book and movie. What is social policy: all about social purposes and the choices btw them, form the base that directs the goals and objectives of various groups that deliver social services. Why is it important: social policy impacts practice/service/resources which impacts the context of our daily lives. Levels of social policy: global, national, provincial, local. Tend to be resp for those things that are nation wide: provincial. Resp for most social issues: municipal. Municipalities are often resp for delivering programs, even if they are funded by the province (provincial responsibility: taxation. Federal has a lot more power over this than the provincial. They can impose any kind of tax they want. People with the most resp have the least money: municipalities have the most resp/least money.
