Promote and Enable
Core Competence : Promote and Enable.
  Promote opportunities for people to use their own strengths and expertise to enable them to meet responsibilities, secure rights and achieve change.
Practice Requirement: Promote the rights of children and adults at risk or in need in the community.
Evidence Indicators:

Promote the rights of children and adults while balancing these with those of the wider community.

Assist children and adults to represent their own interests and rights.

Advocate directly with and on behalf of children and adults.

Practice Requirement: Provide information and advice to individuals, families, carers and groups.
Evidence Indicators:

Directly provide information and advice to individuals, families, carers and groups.

Facilitate access for individuals, families, carers and groups to other sources of information and advice.

Practice Requirement: Provide opportunities for learning and development to enable children and adults to function and participate.
Evidence Indicators:

Assist children and adults to participate in decision making about arrangements for daily living and personal care.

Access or provide opportunities for learning and development to meet identified needs.

Encourage and support attendance at school and educational facilities of children of compulsory school age.

Practice Requirement: Enable people to use their own strengths and expertise to meet responsibilities, secure rights and achieve change.
Evidence Indicators:

Assist people to express their own strengths, abilities, needs and perspectives.

Assist people to clarify goals, objectives, resources and potential obstacles to meeting responsibilities and achieving change.

Assist people to choose an option which will help them meet responsibilities and achieve change.



© CCETSW 1995-2000

Extracted from: CCETSW 'Assuring Quality in the Diploma in Social Work - 1, Rules and Requiremments for the DipSW' (Revised 1995). Part 2 Requirements for Qualification.