(PRLEAP.COM) The Blogspot author goes on to explain that there are several layers of discriminatory practice ranging from the personal to the institutional. The first incorporates practice based upon the social care worker’s own acknowledged or unacknowledged values, which may lead to discrimination when assessing service users and requesting services. These values may include assumptions about the user’s abilities or ethnic group, or the way in which the worker may interpret the service user’s body language, which could have different cultural meanings compared to their own. Institutional racism or discrimination involves the rules, ethos, and organisational practice of the institution employing the worker or being used by the service user. The author concludes by suggesting to her readers that there are fashions and trends in theories, like anything else, which can mask or underplay issues. She reminds them that the key focus in children’s services should always be the welfare of the child.

The Blog provides links to http://www.indibooks.co.uk/ where discussions can be found in many of the listed social work texts and offers an example of a text focusing specifically on these issues which can be seen at: http://www.indibooks.co.uk/index.php?productID=165