BA (Hons) Professional Studies in Child Care (Specialist Award in Social Work - Post-Qualifying)

Assessment

Professional Practice Consolidation

• Critical Review: A reflective chronological summary of your career after qualifying to date (3,000 words)
• Direct observation/Line Manager's report

Critical Reflexivity, Policy and Research in Contemporary Child Care

• Assignment: A critical analysis of recent developments in national and local policy and legistation in an area of your current practice, underpinned by knowledge of recent research (3,500 words)

Working with Children and Young People

• Presentation on direct work with children
• Child in need observation/analysis (3,500 words)

Assessment and Intervention in Child Care

• Case Study (3,000 words)
• Direct Observation (500 words)

Developing Collabarative Care in Practice

• Case Study: An inter-agency task in child care (3,000 words)
• Witness Testimony (500 words)

Enabling Learning

• Professional discussion concerning organising opportunities for the demonstration of assessed competence and enabling learning in practice
• Feedback from learner on your performance
• Direct observation of your practice undertaken by an experienced enabler