Community and Cultural Awareness

Overview

Framework:
RQF
Level:
Level 2
Unit No:
D/616/8399
Credits:
6
Guided learning hours:
48 hours

Assessment Guidance

Portfolio of Evidence

Unit Learning Outcomes

1

Understand the importance to public services of community and cultural awareness.

  • Community includes: local and national, geographical, age e.g. retirement communities, youth groups religion, hobbies and interests e.g. sports groups, organisations e.g. cadets
  • Culture includes: religious, values, trends, lifestyles, cyber.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1
    Explain why it is important for the public services to have an awareness of community and cultural issues at a local and national level.
2

Know about being part of a community.

  • Advantages include: support, friendships, feeling of belonging, help network, tolerance, growth and change, investment
  • Disadvantages include: intolerance, lack of facilities, lack of funding, tension, depravation.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1
    Assess the advantages and disadvantages of being part of a community.
  • 2.2
    Describe the key characteristics of effective communities.
3

Understand cultural diversity within communities.

  • Cultural diversity includes: ethnic population and minority groups, trends, lifestyles
  • Positive impacts include: enrichment, tolerance,
  • Negative impact includes: tension, gangs, racist intolerance.

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1
    Explain what is meant by 'cultural diversity'.
  • 3.2
    Evaluate the positive and negative impact of cultural diversity on communities.
4

Understand the social and cultural problems that exist in communities and their effect on the work of the public services.

  • Social problems include: mental illness, racism, poverty, unemployment, inequality, domestic abuse, drugs and alcohol, bullying including cyber and physical
  • Cultural problems include: national identity, cultural alienation, cultural influence, customs and traditions, age groups, cultural identity.

Assessment Criteria

  • 4.1
    Describe different types of social problems within communities.
  • 4.2
    Describe different types of cultural problems within communities.
  • 4.3
    Explain the impact of social and cultural problems within a specific community on the work of the public services.