6: Supporting the care of UASC and their care of each other

Reflecting on your learning

In this last section of the course, you will reflect on what you have learnt, whether your own learning goals have been met and what further learning you might want to consider.

The aim of this course was to help you think about your reflexive practice in relation to ‘care’ with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) and separated/lone migrant young people. As a reminder, the course learning outcomes were that by the end of the course, you will:

• Have a critical awareness of the meanings and complexities of the concept of ‘care’.
• Understand how different perspectives on ‘childhood’ influence our views of the care of UASC.
• Have reflected on professionals’ and social care practitioners’ views on care.
• Have reflected on UASC young people’s perspectives of care.
• Have critically reflected on your own values and experiences of care practices and caring relationships of UASC.

At the start of the course, you were also asked to consider:

• What aspects of working with UASC do you struggle with the most?
• How do you feel about working reflexively in your own practice?
• What barriers do you feel there are to working in this way?

This is what you wrote:

Try the following activity now to reflect on your learning.

Well done! You have now reached the end of the course. We hope that it has enabled you to either revisit some of your reflexive skills or broaden your reflexive understanding further. The course has introduced you to some key conceptual ideas about ‘care’ and ‘childhood’ and how these inform our understandings of the experiences of UASC and separated child migrants. You have also been introduced to some evidence-informed data from social care practitioners and other professionals, as well as young people themselves.

To complete this course and gain a digital badge, please take the end-of-course quiz.