Social
policy is a term which is applied to the various areas of policy, usually
within a governmental or political setting (such as the welfare state and study
of social services).
- List down 10 important human needs?
- Explain the importance of these human needs?
- Should government make these needs freely accessible
10 Important human needs –
Healthcare
The
organised provision of medical care to individuals or a community.
This is
important because healthcare allows us to receive help when we need it. Without
healthcare, things such as disease, illness and injury wouldn’t be treated and
the advancements we’ve made in today world where we are able to even print
organs and necessary, vital parts for someone’s survival.
Healthcare
should be freely accessible because everyone has a right to being treated for
their problems. I think that some things should cost money and should be
completely free but the ability to treat common illness for you and your
children should be completely free regardless.
Education
The process
of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or
university.
To me,
education is extremely important. It is also important to everyone born
wherever they are. Education allows you to become a better person overall and
sets you up for later life where you are able to work for your society and
abide by the law. It is proven that those more educated are less likely to
reproduce accidentally, less likely to break the law and less likely to be
unemployed.
Education
should be free up until a certain age is what I believe. Much like how the
government currently handles it, I agree with their decisions. Currently
education is free from the Nursery -> Primary school -> High School ->
College (Up to a certain age) and this is where I’d draw the line. I agree with
the tuition fees for places like university but not completely, I think
university should be free for those that are unable to pay or afford for it and
those with select disabilities but can still produce outstanding work.
Criminal
Justice System
A set of
agencies and processes established by governments to control crime and impose
penalties on those who violate laws.
This one is
pretty self-explanatory, the criminal justice system is in place because those
who do wrong or cheat their way in life should be punished. People who also
steal and take what is not theirs should punished as well as those who takes
another person’s life. Without the criminal justice system, crime would run
rampant… Places like shops would be constantly having their windows busted into
and their shop contents taken as well as mugging and gun crime on the streets
would hit an all time high.
This should
be completely free because everyone deserves to feel safe in their own home and
living space. People shouldn’t have to be scared as they walk down the road and
someone else passes them and the same goes for a shopkeeper just trying to
serve its customers and provide a valuable service to society.
Employment
The state
of which someone does work and is paid for it.
Employment
is what the world works around, you are employed, you make money and then you
keep up to afford a living and place for yourself. Without people being
employed, no one is working to serve you the consumer or provide service to the
society. This is important because money and helping each other is what the
world is based on, even if you stack shelves or test beds for a living.
Everyone
should be able to seek employment and be considered for it, some candidates are
better than others and will be chosen over people with less education for
example, but everyone should be able to at least. I don’t agree employment only
being accessible to those who have a certain amount of skills from education
and think that even if you never went to school or are disabled but can
maintain a stable mind, you should be able to apply and should still be
considered.
Equality
Being equal
with everyone else, especially in status, rights, or opportunities.
Without
equality people are treated poorly, those of different religion or race would
still be treated as they were not even 150 years ago. This is in place so that
everyone is treated the same and no one is worse off because of something they
can’t control. It is important in society because we’re all the same on the
inside and it shouldn’t matter what class or race or religion or country of
origin you are from.
Equality is
free and should always be free because being a racist or bigot is just
compensating for your lack of education and ignorance. This is why a petition
received over 500,000 votes to ban Donald Trump from the UK because of how
insensitive he is and his views towards those different from America. Like
Freedom, equality should be free forever.
Housing
Where
houses and flats are considered collectively.
Housing
allows us to stay safe and have a place in which we will always come back to
for comfort and living in. Because of this, it is extremely important in todays
society, in our homes we can make food, eat, clean ourselves and take part in
various leisure activities. Its all a part of living. Without housing and
living under a roof of our own, the streets will be piled with people, sleeping
and being dirty. This spreads infections, as well as cause outbreaks and riots
on the streets.
Housing
should be free to those who can afford it. There are ways in which this can be
helped by banks etc, and there is always an option to rent instead of buying
your own home. Those who are homeless in my eyes, either deserve to be if they
have lost everything they had by an addiction to gambling or say drugs for
example but those who have lost their homes to weather conditions, being kicked
out unfairly or a fire/something along the lines of that, deserve to be given
shelter and help. This is unfortunately where it becomes a grey area as
determining why that person is homeless is almost impossible unless you ask.
And even then, they could just lie to you.
Job
Seekers
A person of
which is unemployed and currently looking for work.
Job Seekers
and people seeking for jobs is important as it keeps people getting into the
working class and earning a living to sustain life and a family, etc… In
society this plays an important role as when people retire, someone is needed
to replace that job which is where the job seeker comes in.
This is
free and should be completely, forever. We all have the right to look for a
job, even if that means we don’t get accepted for it. Making it so you have to
meet a certain requirement to be able to look for a job, makes it so certain
individuals lives may be over before they even start, in the sense of how well
they’ve done at school. Not everyone has an easy childhood and not everyone is
able to get a proper education because of parental issues or choices of the
parents, but that doesn’t mean they should be excluded completely.
Protection
The action
of being protected, or the state of being protected.
Protection
is important as it is the governments duty to make sure we live in safe place
where we can assume but not rely on anything bad not happening. This ties into
housing because a home is a way of protection from danger and also the criminal
justice system as we should be protected against those who break the laws set
in place.
How I feel
about protection is the same as how I feel towards housing and if everyone
should have accessibility to it. People who can afford to live under a roof,
provide a service to society and keep in-line with the law deserve protection.
Those who are on the streets because of their actions with alcohol abuse, drug
abuse or gambling deserve what they get and do not deserve protection. This can
be entirely because I am very anti drug and alcohol use as well as taking part
in gambling, I also think of myself as generally selfish and ignorant towards
the reason why people are in that state, but this is because of past
experiences in family life.
Identity
The fact of
being who or what a person or thing is.
Having your
own identity and being recognised as an individual person in the masses is
important because you deserve to be who you are and not labelled as something
you might not be or might not want to associate yourself with. Without everyone
having their own identity and all being seen as the same, we become sheep and
it really just feels like brainwashing by those higher up when you think about.
Having your own unique identity allows us as a person to be who we want to be.
Everyone is
entitled to an identity and deserves the right to know who they are, what their
purpose is and to form their own opinions instead of being spoon fed. Not being
freely allowed your own identity shows a lack of life and makes everything
boring. People are different for a reason, so why not embrace that?
Freedom
The power
or right to act, speak, or think as one wants.
Lastly I
have decided freedom is my tenth important human need. Freedom and being able
to speak and act within or think as you like is important as everyone deserves
to have the right and ability to do as they wish when kept in line with the
law. People shouldn’t have to follow the same life as everyone else and we
should all able to live the life we like, again, in the constraints of
following the law.
Freedom
should be free for obvious reasons, its in the name of the word even. Those
less fortunate still deserve a mind of their own and the ability to do what
they want if they can and it abides by the law. There really isn’t that much
more to say than that.
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