About the Courses
You’ll examine issues that influence the lives and well-being of children and families in today’s society. Your studies will cover a range of services, systems, policies and work practices that support children and families. To reflect the reality of the workplace, you’ll explore multi-agency working and understand the roles of different professionals in education, youth, community and social care.
A key feature of the Working with Children and Families course is attending a work placement. Alongside your academic studies, this allows you to see how theory, policy and practice relate to each other, and will prepare you for a range of career opportunities.
Career paths usually include work in schools, children’s charities, integrated children’s centres, and social care settings, as well as postgraduate study in education, youth & commun
You’ll examine issues that influence the lives and well-being of children and families in today’s society. Your studies will cover a range of services, systems, policies and work practices that support children and families. To reflect the reality of the workplace, you’ll explore multi-agency working and understand the roles of different professionals in education, youth, community and social care.
A key feature of the Working with Children and Families course is attending a work placement. Alongside your academic studies, this allows you to see how theory, policy and practice relate to each other, and will prepare you for a range of career opportunities.
Career paths usually include work in schools, children’s charities, integrated children’s centres, and social care settings, as well as postgraduate study in education, youth & community work or social work.
Modules
Year One: Working with Children and Families Degree
Safeguarding Children and Young People (20 credits)
Youth and Community Work and Social Change (20 credits)
Adolescence and Wellbeing: Identifying and Supporting Developmental Transitions (20 credits)
Professional Values and Ethics in Youth and Community Work (20 credits)
Youth Work in Action: Role of Youth and Community Worker 1 (20 credits)
Youth Work in Action: Role of Youth and Community Worker 2 (20 credits)
Year Two: Working with Children and Families Degree
Applied Practice 1 (40 credits)
Safeguarding Children and Young People (20 credits)
Inclusion, Equality and Diversity (20 credits)
Researching with Children and Young People (20 credits)
Children, Families and the Law (20 credits)
Year Three: Working with Children and Families Degree
Dissertation (40 credits)
Applied Practice 2 (40 credits)
Child and Adolescent Mental Health (20 credits)
Leading, Managing and Collaboration (20 credits)