The DUP MLA identified several requirements listed in the code which he believed Mr Kelly had breached by his actions in Castlederg, including public duty, accountability, equality, promoting good relations and respect.
If it is said that competences are accompanied by the feeling of duty (accountability) and motivational elements (Weinert, 1999, p. 25), it must be realized that these elements are not part of them: It is possible that someone is highly competent but not motivated to act.
In the years since, he had applied the same tenets of duty and accountability to civilian life.
How can citizens act as public officials when they have no duty or accountability to voters and were never appointed to act as the state?
The strength of human rights lies in its empowerment of people to claim their rights and to hold duty bearers accountable for failures but this requires the political will to develop robust accountability mechanisms [ 37].
The report states: "Professionalism aspires to altruism, accountability, excellence, duty, service, honor, integrity and respect for others" and definitions are provided for each of these "elements of Professionalism".
These approaches stress the central role of social context and social influences such as group attraction, accountability, support, duty and power relations, as well as motivation, in the formation, development and effective working of groups using CMC [ 18].
Reported barriers to involvement in previous studies include workload, lack of confidence and concerns relating to private-professional boundaries, duty of care and accountability, need for training, and limited experience [ 13- 15].
It advocates for the mainstreaming of the best interest of the child into national policies and practices and strives to increase awareness levels in decision makers and service providers about child rights and respective obligations and accountability of duty bearers.
However ethical norms alone lack the articulation of the force of governmental and other regulatory stakeholder duties and standards of accountability.
The provisions of the Convention create accountabilities to duty bearers, particularly the State to ensure adequate and timely implementation of its provisions for the advancement of the rights of the child.
