Assessment 4: INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT-REPORT (25%)Due Date: Week 11Word count: XXXXXXXXXXwordsREPORT:...

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Assessment 4: INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT-REPORT (25%)
Due Date: Week 11
Word count: XXXXXXXXXXwords
REPORT: Poverty, power, welfare, and community services
What you are required to do: Watch the following documentary Struggle Street, Episode 1 on SBS on Demand:
https:
www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/ XXXXXXXXXX/struggle-street
In order to access this video, you need to create an account (it’s free). Please create an account ASAP in order to view the video required for your assessment.
In the context of the agencies which guide the Australian community services framework, use the following reports to justify your responses:

The Australian Council of Social Services (Peak body)
https:
www.acoss.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ACOSS_Poverty-in-Australia-Report_Web-Final.pdf
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
https:
www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/9592571c-801c-46be-9c9d-75d0faff
5
aihw-australias-welfare-2017-chapter1-6.pdf.aspx
Submit a written report with a word count of XXXXXXXXXXwords, using at least 5 scholarly sources (IN ADDITION to the required documentary and the community services sector reports). Scholarly sources are books, book chapters and peer reviewed journal articles. Use ProQuest and/or other databases to help you find journal articles. Refer to the “How to write a report’ resources in the assessment link. Use APA 7 Referencing.
Drawing on information detailed in the documentary, select ONE of the case studies/stories in the SBS documentary. Conduct further research, describe the effects of poverty in Australia. In your essay, address the following points:
· Using the two reports above, and the selected ‘case study/story’, explain the financial, social, economic, health and relationship issues experienced by people in poverty
· Explain and analyse the inte
elationship between poverty, power and disempowerment.
· Explain and analyse the inte
elationship between poverty, welfare and equity
· Identify community sector agencies and resources in Australia that offer support, advocacy and interventions to people in poverty. Based on your reading of the two reports, discuss the extent to which they are sufficient and areas for improvement (using issues that you observed when watching the case study/story in the SBS documentary.
This assignment is not about merely restating facts and figures of the case (although you must do this
iefly at the beginning) or giving your own opinion, but analysing the crucial questions of "what" is happening, "why" and "with what consequences".
In-text referencing and a Reference List are required for this assignment. Please use APA referencing. Please ensure you attach a cover sheet to your work.
To describe is to provide characteristics and features. To explain is to provide an explanation of not only how something happens, but why it happens. To discuss is to consider more than one point of view, and provide arguments for and against the main ideas and draw a conclusion.
Do NOT utilise sources such as www.tutor2u.com and other such web materials as these in no way constitute academic references for the purpose of your assignments. If you rely on such sources for theoretical support, you will be deemed NOT to have met the requirements of the assessment.
    Criteria for Written Essay
    Weight: 100%
    Analysis of literature of the topics
    20%
    Demonstrates understanding of the theoretical foundations relevant to community services work (power, disempowerment, welfare, equity, advocacy) and the agencies and resources to address issues.
    30%
    Use and depth of research (textbook, evidence of scholarly research, cu
ency of sources)
    25%
    Presentation and referencing: effective and organised report structure with co
ect APA referencing, use of recent resources
    15%
    Written communication skills: structure, word use, phrasing, spelling, punctuation
    10%
    Total
    /25%

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Issues of Poverty in Australia		2
ISSUES OF POVERTY IN AUSTRALIA
Table of Contents
Introduction	3
Issues of Poverty	3
Interrelationship between Poverty, Power and Disempowerment	4
Interrelationship between Poverty, Welfare and Equity	5
Community Sectors Supporting the Impoverished	6
Discussions on the Materials Provided	6
Conclusion	7
References	8
Introduction 
	The issue of poverty has been a long standing one in various regions of Australia. The sights of people unable to pay their house rents and money for other essential resources due to either low number of wages, or other issues such as homelessness, unemployment and so on have become extremely common among the Australians. Other criminal issues are also cropping up due to lack of financial stability, such as burglary, burning of cars and houses, problems of drug addiction and so on. The problems of poverty are acting as a major hinderance in the path of gaining empowerment, education as well as equity. 
Issues of Poverty
	Poverty is the sole cause of a number of issues such as financial, social, economic, health and relationship. The issues will be discussed briefly as follows.
	When families with a single source of income are trying to support a family with children, they are inevitably unable to be sustaining, thereby leading them to go below the poverty line. The fulltime payment of an individual is only capable of sustaining two people. In broken families, such as in case of divorce or separation or single parenthood, the families are suffering from extreme poverty. Even in cases of job loss, the family members and especially the children are more susceptible to suffering from health problems, improper social and emotional wellbeing, poor educational outcomes and so on (Australian Council of Social Service and University of New South Wales, 2018). The central issue with job loss is that it is not restricted to one particular generation but continues for multiple generations. In the documentary, Bob has been shown to be impoverished as his mother abandoned him at a young age. He is not only impoverished and unemployed but also homeless, as a result of which he is compelled to live in temporary camp sites. Due to his financial constraints, Bob is suffering from health problems, and is shown to have issues in gathering funds for his cataract operation (Chloekim 2709, 2021).
	As shown in the documentary, there is an economic depletion in the sector of farming due to increased heat and problems of draught that has been continuing for a long time. Moreover, issues of national labour shortages and complications of government water allocation, the farmers are in a bad shape. The family of Rosey and Barry are shown to have extreme trouble in dairy farming due to increased temperature, lack of resources such as water and fodder, less earning as manufacturers are paying a meagre amount for the dairy (Chloekim 2709, 2021). These issues are also leading to financial issues thereby leading to poverty.
Interrelationship between Poverty, Power and Disempowerment
	The issues of poverty cannot be perceived distinctly and differently from the issues of power and disempowerment. The three factors work in a cyclical manner and each factor inevitably affects the other. According to Davidson et al. (2020), poverty cannot be evaded without providing attention to the objectionable levels of excess affluence. The structures of property and of wealth distribution are closely interrelated with the problem of poverty. According to Martinez and Perales (2017),

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