Q1. Critically examine issues of social justice in Ireland and analysis how these impact you as practitioners and the social contexts that contribute to the vulnerability of your clients.
Q2. Critically and analyze reports and demonstrate an evidence-informed approach to understand the wider life circumstances of social care clients
Q3. Use social theory to understand the wider sociological contributors to disadvantage, stigma, social exclusion and vulnerability
Q4. Evaluate current social and political events using theoretical constructs of power

Key themes for a term – challenges for social justice in social care practice:

• Vulnerable identities
• The intersection of class, power, gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity
• Transformative and critical social care practice
• Based on academic arguments, this report develops an ethical and human rights framework that can serve as a basis for developing policies to address social determinants of health. It has been produced by members of the cross-cutting Task Group on Equity, Equality and Human Rights and invited external reviewers as part of the European review of social determinants of health and the health divide commissioned to Michael Marmot by the WHO Regional Offi ce for Europe. It refl ects the fi ndings of an interdisciplinary research group, consisting of researchers from both public health and law. A major obstacle in this research has been to overcome differences between these two disciplines, especially for human rights. We strongly feel that such differences, which could lead to misunderstandings, can only be overcome through collaboration and cross-fertilization to enhance the mutual understandings of our frameworks and tools.