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Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...social workers published in 2017 (Winter et al., 2017) found that while engaging with children and young people might be difficult those difficulties should not be overstated. A crucial step for anyone working with children and young people is to go beyond standardised frameworks and recognise that each child has individual needs and comes from their own specific context...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts

...work to repair ruptures to social relationships. It explores the strengths, weaknesses and limitations of adversarial versus problem-solving courts and encourages you to think about alternatives to existing dominant knowledges and practices...Social life is characterised by various relationships – those with family and friends, neighbours, wider communities and those...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Storïau unigol: safbwyntiau ar waith cymdeithasol
Health, Sports & Psychology

Storïau unigol: safbwyntiau ar waith cymdeithasol

...social workers in England,Journal of Social Work cyf. 12, rhif 1, tud. 16–36. Wilson, K., Ruch G., Lymbery M. a Cooper, A. (gol.) (2011) Social Work: An introduction to contemporary practice, Harlow, Pearson...Storïau unigol: safbwyntiau ar waith cymdeithasol: Cydnabyddiaethau - Mae'r uned hon wedi ei ysgrifennu gan Judith Davies. Mae'r deunydd a gydnabyddir isod yn...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...working with children or young people, for example in childcare, education, healthcare, social work or youth work settings. However, you will also find it of value if you are planning to work in one of these fields, or if you simply wish to improve your understanding of services for children and young people. The course is structured around a series of activities ......
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...Social Workers Learning Through Work. Her qualitative study offers valuable insights into how social workers learn through work. Sitting at the intersection between knowledge about workplace and professional learning the study explored the lived experiences of social workers’ learning to become social workers. She used an approach known as ......
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Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...social worker in Liverpool in the early nineties and then worked as a social worker in mental health services until about 2008, and then moved to Queen’s University in Belfast. My current role is Professor of Social Care, but my focus is still very much on mental health. And in terms of my interest in that area, it’s probably mainly because of family experiences –...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...works in our own lives and in the social world cannot be simplified into a list of facts to be memorised. Good RE teaches us how to bring parts of our identity which are deeply personal and influential into public discussion with our community. Our perspective – ‘where we stand’ – is brought into all our decisions whether they be personal, academic or...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...social security and child support social work gambling and the National Lottery national heritage data protection training firearms housing consumer protection some aspects of transport, including the road network, ports and harbours ordnance survey law and home affairs (the prosecution system and courts) abortion, human fertilisation, embryology, genetics the police and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs