Safeguarding and Child Protection Smith-Dos Santos

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Introduction

This module will explore safeguarding and child protection including the necessary skills, values and attributes to be a successful professional working with a range of children’s services.

 

You will build on your previous learning by focusing on the roles and responsibilities of professionals in a safeguarding context. This will include key legislation, policy and evaluate processes that exist to support children who have or are likely to suffer significant harm. You will consider discrimination, which affects individual children, young people and families.

 

The teaching and learning methods applied within the module will model professional skills when working with babies, children, young people, and families in addition to the skills necessary to be a successful student within Higher Education. Students will participate in a case conference role-play to apply learning from the module and based on this experience will contribute to an assessed group seminar to reflect on their learning.

To summarise this module will support students to explore the following:

  • Why the voice of the child is essential to all safeguarding and child protection practice;
  • What the thresholds are in practice for social work intervention;
  • What procedures, policies and legislation are followed when safeguarding children and families?
  • What are Section 47 Investigations?
  • How to assess risk and protective factors when working with families;
  • The roles and responsibilities of professionals in an Initial Child Protection Case Conference and to reflect on this experience in an assessed group seminar.

 

Learning Outcomes

  1. Understand the importance of the voice of the child and demonstrate an understanding of the key legislation and policy that impacts on safeguarding and child protection work.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of roles and responsibilities in a safeguarding context.
  3. Evaluate the processes which exist to support children who have or are likely to suffer significant harm.
  4. Communicate in a professional manner, listening to others and negotiating outcomes.
 
 
 

 

Pre-session Activities

Session Title

Follow-Up Activities

 

Module Launch

 

 

Safeguarding and Child Protection Level 1 Training

 

 

Types and indicators of abuse

Additional reading – DfE (2018) Working together to safeguard children

 

Roles and responsibilities of professionals and organisations that support families

Researching multi-agencies and their roles in safeguarding

 

Early Help and Safeguarding Partnerships

NSPCC Review and Additional reading

 

Safeguarding stories

 

 

Assessment guidance and group presentation planning

Working in groups to develop case study response

 

Concept of significant harm

 

 

Working with case studies

Preparation for assessment

 

Effective communication when responding to concerns

Additional reading

 

Recap on key legislation and policies to support children and families

Assignment preparation

 

Assessment support

 

 

 

Pre-session Activities

Session Title

Follow-Up Activities

 

Module Launch

 

 

Safeguarding and Child Protection Level 1 Training

 

 

Types and indicators of abuse

Additional reading – DfE (2018) Working together to safeguard children

 

Roles and responsibilities of professionals and organisations that support families

Researching multi-agencies and their roles in safeguarding

 

Early Help and Safeguarding Partnerships

NSPCC Review and Additional reading

 

Safeguarding stories

 

 

Assessment guidance and group presentation planning

Working in groups to develop case study response

 

Concept of significant harm

 

 

Working with case studies

Preparation for assessment

 

Effective communication when responding to concerns

Additional reading

 

Recap on key legislation and policies to support children and families

Assignment preparation

 

Assessment support

 

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