Valuing Equality in Irish Social Care

Abstract

In this article the author critiques Irish social care by presenting an equality perspective \non practice. An equality perspective involves developing emancipatory practices, that is, \nways of helping that provide egalitarian solutions and outcomes. Although emancipatory \nvalues are often contrasted with traditional social care values, the author seeks a pragmatic \nand integrated approach to emancipatory practices rather than a restatement of traditional \ndichotomies. Emancipatory practice begins with an appreciation of the nature and relevance \nof inequalities on the lives of diverse social care users. Building a commitment to equality \nwithin social care education and practice is an important step in altering many individual \nand institutional social care practices by focussing on equality processes and outcomes as \ncentral social care objectives. Using a well credited framework that outlines five dimensions \nof inequality (Baker, Lynch, Cantillon and Walsh, 2004), the author argues that social care \neducators and practitioners need to debate the issues raised and develop emancipatory \npractices.

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