Course and Module Catalogue

This module provides the opportunity for you to examine the complexity of the relationship between legislation and health and social care and social work practice. It will assist you in enhancing your knowledge of a wide range of professional social work laws and will examine how legislation sets the boundaries … For more content click the Read More button below. This module is designed to equip students with detailed applied legal knowledge in areas of adult and children practice. In this module you will critically examine the complexity of the relationship between the political context, legislation and social work practice and develop your knowledge of a wide range of legal areas relevant to professional social work in relation to adults and children. This will enable you, when in practice, to work within statutory and legal requirements. You will examine how legislation provides the framework within which social work and social welfare services are offered, how it sets the boundaries for social work practice and how it determines the roles and responsibilities of social workers. You will examine the contradictions and dilemmas which confront practitioners when applying the law within their practice, identifying how the law can sometimes support and sometimes challenge professional values. You will develop skills in presenting legal arguments, evidence and recommendations with confidence and authority. You will critically consider how different options for practice balance legal rules, moral rules and individual and collective rights. This module will provide you with underpinning knowledge that is required to meet the Chief Social Workers’ Knowledge and Skills Statements.

Lectures – formal presentation and critical discussion of legislation and policy.Classroom debates.Virtual learning environment – independent study related to podcasts, recorded videos, screencasts, and written materials.

• Application of the law when working with Children and Families, including risk and safeguarding issues• Application of the law when working with Adults, including risk and safeguarding issues• Human Rights- a critical understanding of the role of the law in promoting human right and social justice• Political impact and … For more content click the Read More button below.

The School generic grading criteria at masters level and the learning outcomes will apply. The expectation is that text based assessment tasks will be submitted via Turnitin®.