Assessment 3: Individual Written Essay (40%)
Due Date Week 11
Word Count: 2000 – 2500 words
Students are required to submit a written essay responding to the following:
Critically analyse the advantages and disadvantages of using risk assessment and risk management approaches when working with young people and families in ONE of three contexts – child protection, out-of-home care, or youth justice. In your answer to this question, you must:
• Define risk, risk factors, risk assessment and risk management
• Consider the advantages of risk assessment and risk management strategies when working with young people (in child protection, or out-of-home care, or youth justice).
• Consider the disadvantages of risk assessment and risk management strategies when working with young people (in child protection, or out-of-home care, or youth justice)
• Provide recommendations about how to use risk effectively and ethically in your chosen context – and in a way that promotes young people’s immediate safety and longer term development and wellbeing.
• Best practice recommendations should be persuasive, logical and research based.
You must use APA 7 referencing. Your essay should include at least 12 (scholarly) journal articles read, in addition to any textbook references. The format and content of your essay will be discussed in greater detail during tutorials.
Do NOT utilize sources such as www.tutor2u.com and other such web materials as these in no way constitute academic references for the purpose of your assignments. If you rely on such sources for theoretical support, you will be deemed NOT to have met the requirements of the assessment.
