2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

HECS3284 Working with Adults, Children & Families in Practice

30 creditsClass Size: 50

Module manager: Robin Graham
Email: r.graham@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisite qualifications

Successful completion of first year of the BA (Hons) Social Work Programme in accordance with programme requirements for progression to level 3 study

Module replaces

HECS3271 Working with Children & FamiliesHECS3272 Working with Adults in Social Care

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

1. To be able to critically evaluate the assessment process for both Children and Adults...
2. To understand the legal, policy and statutory guidance that underpins child and adult safeguarding procedures in practice.
3. Understand the knowledge and skills for using evidenced based perspectives in working with adults, children and families
4. Understand and articulate the ethical dilemmas in undertaking work with service user and carer in work with both adults and children and family work.
5. To critically evaluate the importance of working within restorative practice, signs of safety and other strengths-based approaches
6. To critically evaluate the current issues around working with children within the care system including permanency planning.
7. Be able to critically evaluate and analyse current issues around working with adults in social work and social care
8. Evaluate the impact on self of working within complex organisations and in challenging situations and how to manage this.
9. To critically evaluate the importance of supervision and support

Learning outcomes
Students will:
1. Be able to critically evaluate the social work task of undertaking t assessments within legal and procedural frameworks.
2. Be familiar with the use of interagency child protection and child and adult safeguarding procedures in practice, including the current versions of statutory guidance.
3. Understand the knowledge and skills for using evidenced based perspectives in working with adults, children and families
4. Analyse the ethical importance and potential dilemmas in service user and carer participation in work with adults, children and families
5. Be able to critically evaluate the importance of working within restorative and other strengths-based approaches
6. Be able to critically evaluate the current issues around working with children within the care system including permanency planning.
7. Be able to critically evaluate and analyse current issues around working with adults in social work and social care
8. Evaluate the impact on self of working within complex organisations and in challenging situations and how to manage this.
9. Be able to critically evaluate the importance of supervision and support

Skills outcomes
Professional Standards
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
2.4, 2.5
3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.7
4.2, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
6.2

PCF
Professionalism 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 1.9
Values & ethics 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Diversity 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Rights etc 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Knowledge 5.1 to 5.12
Reflection & analysis 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
Intervention & skills 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.10, 7.12, 7.13
Contexts/organisations 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.5, 8.7

Court skills
Report writing skills
Direct work skills with children & adults

KSS
Children & Families sections 1-10
Adults sections 1-12

Syllabus

- Current national guidance, law and policy in relation to a range of areas of adult and children’s social work
- Social Work assessment and intervention in statutory settings with adults and children
- Learning lessons from public inquiries and reviews in relation to adults and children at risk
- Person centred practice and assessment
- Decision making in statutory settings
- Working in integrated and inter-professional contexts
- Dealing with complex situations involving risk and safety
- Evidence informed practice in complex situations
- Direct work skills with children and adults
- Working with service user & carers in partnership
- Strengths based approaches
- Power, ethics and values in statutory social work
- Understand the role of voluntary and private sector providers
- Evaluate the impact on self of working within complex organisations and in challenging situations and how to manage this.
- Be able to critically evaluate the importance of supervision and support

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Workshop	2	4.00	8.00
Class tests, exams and assessment	2	2.00	2.00
Group learning	2	4.00	8.00
Lecture	6	1.00	6.00
Seminar	6	2.00	12.00
Tutorial	2	2.00	4.00
Independent online learning hours			100.00
Private study hours			160.00
Total Contact hours			40.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

Guided reading and research related to the syllabus using online and other resources
Preparation for class discussions and assessments
On line quizzes and exercises to reinforce classroom learning
Group learning and post placement workshops will generate private study as students prepare for group presentations

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Lectures will be supplemented with a mix of discussions and group activities so there will be scope for dialogue between students and between students and lecturer when questions can be asked and understanding tested. Post placement workshops will focus on reflecting and learning from placement experiences. The group project: students will be divided into groups of 4 to agree a topic for presentation. Formative assessment will be rehearsing presentation and the coordination of each group member's contribution.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	A 1500 word assignment on the process of preparing contribution to group presentation: working as part of a team and knowledge contribution to the project	50.00
Group Project	Groups of 4 will present on a joint topic agreed with module leader.	50.00
In-course Assessment	FORMATIVE: Formative assessment: practising working on team projects	0.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

No compensation

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 10/10/2024 15:08:18

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