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Higher National Certificate in Housing Year 2 - Housing and Social Welfare SWH100: Poverty and Housing Conditions The unit is concerned with social welfare and housing.
Welfare is usually taken to mean a state of satisfactory health or well-being.
Most of us are able to provide this for ourselves, but there are some
people who need support to do this. Social welfare is protection provided
for people who are not able to provide adequately for Welfare provision is likely to be necessary when people are not able – for various reasons – to produce sufficient income to maintain and care for themselves. View SWH100: Poverty and Housing Conditions as a pdf document SWH101: Health and Health Services In this block, we will be exploring a range of issues
relating to health and health services. The National Health Service
is undergoing a period of rapid Health issues can at times be quite personal and we
need to acknowledge the ways in which health beliefs and behaviours
affect us and our clients. Some of the We begin by looking at a range of topics under the broad heading of Health, Society and Environment. We examine medical and social models of health, and some of the manifestations of inequality in health. This is linked to the role of health and health services in combating social exclusion The next section looks at the National Health Service. We examine its history and organisation, as well as
the roles of the professionals who deliver its services. The ways in
which NHS performance is evaluated are also Finally, some of the links between health and housing conditions are considered. View
SWH101: Health and Health Services as a pdf document SWH102: Personal Social Services In this block we will be looking at: • the origins and structures of social services We begin with a brief account of the history of the
personal social services from their origins in charitable organisations,
through to the current structure of local Finally, the rest of this block will address the particular role and functions of social services in relation to children and young people, as defined by the 1989 Children Act. This will involve consideration of the implications
of the White Paper “Modernising Social Services” and the Department
of Health initiative ‘‘Quality Protects’’ , Throughout the block, we will look at the way the personal
social services are affected by prevailing social attitudes to, for
example, the poor and families, and at This study block links closely to another block in this Unit, which addresses issues relating to personal social services for adults (Community Care). View SWH102: Personal Social Services as a pdf document SWH103: The Voluntary Sector The voluntary sector is an increasingly important player
on both the national and international scenes. In this block, we will
be attempting to define the voluntary View SWH103: The Voluntary Sector as a pdf document SWH104: Community Care In this Block, we will be reviewing the history of the
concept and practice of care in the community as it affects a number
of different groups of people within society. We will then go on to look at some of the groups who need community care services: people with mental health problems, older people, people with learning disabilities and people with learning disabilities. Finally, we will look at the growing role of housing providers in the delivery of community care. View SWH104: Community Care as a pdf document
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