- Department: Social Policy and Social Work
- Module co-ordinator: Dr. Hannah Jobling
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: M
- Academic year of delivery: 2018-19
- See module specification for other years: 2019-20
Occurrence | Teaching cycle |
---|---|
A | Autumn Term 2018-19 to Spring Term 2018-19 |
General
This module is intended to provide students with an initial understanding of the social policy, legal and organisational context in which social work is practiced in England and Wales (consideration of the wider, international context for social work follows in the summer term).
The module will introduce and examine the professional aims, ethics and values of social work, including (but not limited to) the Health and Care Professions Councils Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics. It will encourage critical thinking about the place of the professions values and ethics within the legal and policy context for UK social work.
Social Policy
This module is designed to introduce students to the core concepts that underpin UK social policy and more importantly to show how these are related to professional social work practice. The module will cover the core theories used in the understanding of social policy. It will outline the key issues in contemporary UK social work that are related to policy and explore current topics that social workers are likely to face in their everyday working lives.
Law
This module provides an introduction to the legal context for social work practice, primarily in England and Wales. It will familiarise students with relevant legislation, provide detailed knowledge of key sections of certain Acts, and an opportunity to begin to think through the ways in which this key legislation and official guidance can impact upon situations encountered in practice across a range of service user groups. In doing so, it will also seek to help students to consider ways in which the law may operate for the benefit of vulnerable people and social groups and the ways in which it could oppress them. It will seek to encourage the development of a critical stance in relation to the effects of the law in practice and the social work role in relation to this.
Values and ethics
The module aims to introduce students to the values and ethics of social work. Critical thinking about the nature of those values, and about the application of those values to the legal and policy context for social work will be encouraged. The module will enable students to develop a framework for understanding the following themes:
Relationship to the domains of the PCF
This module aims to contribute to the ability of students to demonstrate their readiness to practice in the following principle domains:
and to contribute to their capabilities in these additional domains:
By the end of the module, students will be able to demonstrate:
-human rights and equality
-children and families social work
-youth justice social work
-community care social work
-mental health social work
Academic and graduate skills
Having completed the module, students will:
Other learning outcomes (if applicable)
Having completed the module, students will:
Task | Length | % of module mark |
---|---|---|
Essay/coursework Ethics and values essay |
N/A | 33.3 |
Essay/coursework Social policy essay |
N/A | 33.4 |
University - closed examination Social Work Law |
1 hours | 33.3 |
Non-compensatable
Task | Length | % of module mark |
---|---|---|
Essay/coursework Ethics and values essay |
N/A | 33.3 |
Essay/coursework Social policy essay |
N/A | 33.4 |
University - closed examination Social Work Law |
1 hours | 33.3 |
Students will receive written feedback within four weeks
Adams, A., Dominelli, L. & Payne M. (2009)
Social Work: Themes, Issues and Critical
Debates
. Basingstoke, Palgrave
Banks, S. (2006)
Ethics and Values in Social Work
. Basingstoke, Palgrave
Brammer
, A. (2010)
Social Work Law
, 3rd end: Harlow, Pearson
Brayne, H. and Carr, H. (2010)
Law for Social Workers
, 11th edn: Oxford, OUP.
Thompson, N (2012)
Anti discriminatory practice
. Basingstoke, Palgrave
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