Problem
You are employed with a large consulting agency in which you are part of a team that performs audits on health and welfare programs. The goal of the team/work is to help shape sustainable and cost-effective programs, thus making lives better for oppressed populations. As you are nearing the end of the audit and program analysis it is part of your duties to provide a report. The team has collectively written the report with the findings and submitted it to executive leadership within the consulting agency for review. Your supervisor has come to the team and instructed for various sections of findings to be eliminated from the report prior to submission to the client.
A. Do you encounter an ethical dilemma with this scenario? If so, detail the ethical dilemma in this situation. If you don't encounter an ethical dilemma with this scenario, detail why.
B. What social work values, principles, and standards relate to this scenario?
C. Select an ethical decision-making model and use the NASW Code of Ethics to detail how you, the social worker would respond to your supervisor's directive.
D. In the actions you detail in #C, point to the social work values, principles, or standards that guided your specific actions.