Written essay
Total marks: 30%
Word count: 1400 – 1600 words
Due date: Sunday of Week 8
Description
You are playing the role of a community service worker supporting a young adult son who is 18 years old who is seeking an order to protect himself from family violence perpetrated by his step-father at home, where the son lives with his mother and step-father.
You are required to investigate court and relevant support services that are applicable to your local jurisdiction and submit a written Support Plan for your client (i.e., the 18 year old son), which must include the following:
Note
Jurisdiction-specific context
Your response to the scenario and circumstances involves you undertaking research to identify and apply the framework of services and arrangements involving the departmental, legislative, court, tribunal and administrative structures that operate in and are applicable to a specific jurisdiction (ie State or Territory in which you reside.
Research literature
Your essay must be based on a review of the literature and should include at least five primary academic references, ie peer-reviewed (scholarly) journal articles or book chapters.
Do not rely upon non-academic and other web-based secondary references as these do not constitute academic references for the purpose of your assignment, which if relied upon for theoretical support, may mean you have NOT met the requirements of the assessment. Do not use course slides or other course materials as references – these are secondary references.
Referencing
You must use APA 7 referencing.
Table of references: You must include a Table of references section in your essay and acknowledge any sources that you use, including all web-based sources.
Table of legislation: Any legislation (ie Acts and regulations) that may have been cited should be listed separately in a Table of legislation (follows References).
Structure of essay
As the assignment conveniently provides five issues there is a lot of sense to follow them as they form the basis of assessment criteria and use them as major headings, in addition to an introduction and conclusion.
If there are identifiable sub-issues or topics within any of the issues (which are represented by headings), then it may be a good strategy to also include a limited number of subheadings under each of the five major headings
Assessment Criteria
Criteria | Mark | Weighting (%) |
Court location and role | 6 | 20 |
Summary of the legal process | 6 | 20 |
Support services | 6 | 20 |
Preparation | 5 | 15 |
Ethics issues and worker response | 4 | 15 |
Paragraph and sentence structure | 3 | 10 |
Total | 30 | 100% |
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