Overview

The module will include: • an analysis of issues related to developing professional partnerships, based on social-work framework of analyzing knowledge, values and skills, and a study of the roles and responsibilities of key people providing services to children, young people and families. During the first semester: • a range of multi-agency professionals will address the students about the development of successful partnerships with children and young people and their families. During semester two: • students will find themselves a placement and undertake a period of work in an appropriate setting. This could take the form of a day a week, half a day a week or a series of activities of varied duration. Evidence of attendance will be required.

Assessment Strategy

-threshold -(D) A satisfactory knowledge and understanding of effective working practices and partnerships in context of organizations that provide for children, young people and families, and the ability to reflect and evaluate their own contribution during a relevant work placement. Show an ability to identify the roles and responsibilities of key practitioners and understand the issues involved in providing quality services for children and young people.

-good -(B) A good knowledge and understanding of effective working practices and partnerships in context of organizations that provide for children, young people and families, and the ability to critically reflect and evaluate their own contribution during a relevant work placement. Show a good ability to identify the roles and responsibilities of key practitioners and understand a range of issues involved in providing quality services for children and young people.

-excellent -(A) A comprehensive knowledge and exceptional understanding of effective working practices and partnerships in context of organizations that provide for children, young people and families, and the ability to critically reflect and evaluate in depth their own contribution during a relevant work placement. Show an excellent ability to identify and evaluate the roles and responsibilities of key practitioners and discuss a wide variety of issues involved in providing quality services for children and young people.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the concept of employability and how to develop their own employability

• analyze critically the knowledge, values and skills essential to developing working practices and partnerships with parents and carers, colleagues and children and young people

• demonstrate a critical understanding of their own role within the organization and critically reflect on the relevance of the experience in terms of developing a career focus

• demonstrate a deeper critical appreciation of issues involved in providing quality services for children and young people through placement experience

• identify, in depth, the roles and responsibilities of a range of key people, providing services for children, families and systems for developing partnerships with others