Safeguarding Children and Young People in Practice
COMMENT OUT ANCHOR
This module will enhance your knowledge, and ability to analyse and reflect on complex situations within the safeguarding children role. It will also develop your ability to consider the importance of effective multi-disciplinary and interagency safeguarding practice.
Learning on the module will help enhance capability to undertake key elements of effective safeguarding practice including communicating with children, multi-disciplinary and interagency practice and managing the personal and professional interface.
Taught sessions provide opportunities to engage with academic staff, expert professionals and current researchers to develop practice to a more sophisticated level required for social workers engaged in safeguarding practice on a day-to-day basis. Knowledge regarding contemporary concerns will be further enhance and updated. In group discussions and through directed learning, students will relate learning to their particular professional context and critically reflect on their own practice, ethical dilemmas and value issues arising in safeguarding practice with children and families. This is a Module which has a combined Portfolio Component and assignment submission Component where with a Portfolio students are required to demonstrate post-qualified practice across the PCFS alongside academic evidence of critical reflection and learning from practice, practice analysis and complex analytical skills.
Course Information
Award Type Single 20 Credit Module - 20 Academic Credits which will allow you to go on to complete the PG Cert Professional Social Work Practice (60 credits required). You will also receive a letter confirming that you have successfully completed the Module to support your progression portfolio.
Delivery Method Classroom based in person
Mode of Study
Part time
Location
Coach Lane Campus
Start 28th January 2026
Duration
5 full days
Sector
Social Work and Education
Course Outline
Learning Environment
Entry Requirements
Key Learning Outcomes
Academic Expertise
Fees and Funding
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You will attend 5 full-day classroom taught days in total, during which you will partake in lectures and group discussions. A particular feature of the teaching and learning will be critical reflections on practice and on your own service user and carer’s experience to promote your appreciation of the complexity of working with people in the complex area of safeguarding practice.
The module is classroom based with direct teaching and reflective group discussion. The teaching team recognise and celebrate the existing knowledge, skills, and experience practitioners bring, and place great emphasis on exchanging and synthesising knowledge, theory and research with practice skills and interventions.
This module can be undertaken by qualified social workers.
On successful completion of this module, you should be able to:
1. Identify and critically evaluate legal, policy and practice developments related to safeguarding children.
2. Extend specialist knowledge, including research and evidence-based approaches, to inform safeguarding practice.
3. Demonstrate enhanced critically reflective abilities in social work practice including integration of service user and carer perspectives.
4. Demonstrate capability in safeguarding practice with children, young people, their families and carers.
5. Demonstrate the attitudes and values relating to practice with children, young people and families embedded in relevant occupational and professional body requirements.
Programme Lead Dr Carole Southall carole.southall@northumbria.ac.uk
Module Lead Dr. John Cavener: john.m.cavener@northumbria.ac.uk
£814
