Assignment brief

Qualification

L3 Subsidiary Diploma Uniformed Public Services

Unit number and title

Unit 3: Citizenship, Diversity and the

Public Services

Assessor name

Ken Fraser/Glyn Potter

Date issued

22 Jan 2016

Hand in deadline

Peer Assessment 5 Feb 2016

12 Feb 2016

Assignment title

The meaning and benefits of citizenship and diversity

Purpose of this assignment;

1 Understand the meaning and benefits of citizenship and diversity.

Scenario
You are a Police Officer that has recently finished training and are now working in the local
community. There is a regular problem with local youths committing petty crime and harassing
other members of the community. Your Sgt tasks you with creating a website to help the community
better understand the importance of Citizenship and Diversity to their community. Whilst needing to
be informative and cover the main areas of Citizenship and Diversity, your article needs to appeal to
the younger generation and be designed to educate people about the meaning and benefits of
citizenship and diversity. It should also include ideas and information about how to be a better
citizen.
Task 1
Your website needs to be created on the Weebly website, further details will be provided on how to
access this. As your site needs to engage young adults your Sgt has suggested including some
pictures, graphs and possibly appropriate short videos to help you get your points across. Be careful
not to include any long videos, please consider attention span of online users and the age group you
are aiming for.
Your Sgt has suggested your website has 2 distinct pages;
Page 1
Section One
Should discuss the benefits of good citizenship to the public service. How will the likes of the Police
and Fire service benefit from the community they serve demonstrating good citizenship. Give
examples of what good citizenship can be and how the public services could benefit from this.
Section Two
Should build on the discussion in Section One and analyse and Evaluate how and why good
citizenship is important to the public services when dealing with issues of diversity and equality. You
should also consider the advantages and disadvantages of good citizens and the implications to the
public services of individuals not practicing good citizenship.
You should include in this section graphical representation of the composition of your local
community and the composition of a chosen public service. You can use this information to analyse
and evaluate the effectiveness of public service recruitment.
Page 2
This page should be a glossary of terms providing an explanation of the key terminology associated
with Citizenship and Diversity relating them to the public services and discuss the key concepts
associated with Diversity. You could again use pictorial and graphical resources to support this.
This is an individual piece of work which you are required to have fully completed by 0900
Friday 5 Feb 2016. A paper signed student front cover sheet available on Moodle must be
submitted to your tutor for your website to be marked.
This provides evidence for P1, P2, P3, M1, D1
Please plan your website before your start writing it. Think about what information is required and

how this might be structured in to your site.

Your website must cover the following points;

Explain the range of meanings attached to citizenship, diversity and the associated
terminology.

Discuss the key concepts associated with diversity.

Assess the benefits of good citizens to public services and society in respecting equality.

Analyse the importance to public services of good citizens respecting equality and supporting
them by respecting the key concepts associated with diversity
Evaluates the role of good citizens in supporting public services in dealing with issues of
equality and diversity.

To cover these points effectively you must include the items below taken from the unit
specifications

Citizenship: definition of citizen and citizenship as used in general terms; public service
view of citizenship; legal view of citizenship; qualities of good citizens such as dedication
and responsibility; attitudes to other people; participation in community activities;
awareness of needs of others
Diversity: definition of diversity as used in general terms and by public services and local
communities;
composition of the local and national community within the borough/local authority area
(ethnicity,
religion, gender, age, disability)
Terminology: meaning of different words used eg racism, racist, institutionalised racism,
multiculturalism, ethnocentricity, sexism, heterosexist, homophobia, equal opportunity,
equality, prejudice, harassment, victimisation, disability, direct and indirect discrimination
Concepts: of integration, tolerance and multiculturalism; the rights and responsibilities of
individuals in
society as citizens; equal opportunities and positive action to find solutions for greater
social inclusion
and representation without changing standards in favour of race or gender or disability;
corporate social
responsibility
Benefits of a good citizen: the volunteer working in public services; volunteers in
the community; adding value to society and supporting society; protecting the
environment; challenging injustice and making a positive difference to effect fairness and
to improve society.
Definitions to help you succeed.
Explain; Means to set out in detail the meaning of something, to say why and how
Discuss/Describe; Give a clear description that includes all the relevant features.
Think of it as Painting a picture with words.
Analyse; Identify separate factors and say how they are related and how each one
contributes to the topic.
Evaluate; Review the information then bring it together to form a conclusion. Give
evidence for each of your views or statements.
Evidence checklist

Sources of information
Breeze, Marilyn, Cronin, Margaret, and Spafford, Alan. BTEC Level 3 National Public Services.
London, GBR: Hodder Education, 2010. ProQuest ebrary.
Regular review of the national and international news and other current affairs programmes is
strongly recommended.
Watching Question Time every Thursday 22:35 is strongly recommended.