Safeguarding: Working with Risk and Opportunity

Key information

Course Leader: Kim Tran

Level: 7

Credits: 30

Mode of delivery: Online

Learner Hours: Scheduled 35 hours Independent 265 hours

School: Health & Social Work

Available places: 40

Dates

• 16/01/2025

Fees and Funding

£1730.00

The price quoted above is per 30 credits and relates to students assessed as UK/home self-funded for fee purposes. Prices may differ for students that are assessed as EU Overseas/Overseas. Fees status will normally stay with the student for the remainder of their course. Here you can find further details along with, costs and when your fees need to be paid. You may be able to obtain a Post Graduate student loan, for which you must sign up for the whole MSc programme and not just individual modules or a Post Graduate Diploma, further details can be found at Gov.uk Master’s Loan

Entry Requirements

Course aims  

Enhance their skills in critical reflection, decision making and to increase awareness of evidence-based practice when undertaking safeguarding. Students will be able to critically analyze and develop their  professional role relating to safeguarding issues and processes and to recognize and work with the risks and opportunities that are created by safeguarding situations.  

Content  

Students will explore the definition of abuse and the development of protection and preventative services, to include international definitions and policies. They will explore causes and forms of abuse and the ethical issues that arise from this. It will examine current legislation and guidance by applying this knowledge to their own area of work, e.g., Children Act 1989, Working Together to Safeguarding Children (HM Government, 2018), Care Act 2012 and statutory guidance on the Act (Department of Health and Social Care 2018), and address issues for carers & information sharing. The module will enable students to critically analyse the impact of professional interventions and develop awareness of their own impact on others and the aetiology of their own judgements. Critical examination of diversity issues and safeguarding, e.g., Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME), sexuality, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning Plus (LGBTQ+) status 

Knowledge and Understanding  

Successful students will typically:  
1. Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to synthesise the key principles and different approaches to safeguarding in relation to working with vulnerable people.  

2. Have critical understanding of the impact of risk and safeguarding strategies within one’s professional role, the relevant legal frameworks and evidence including cultural awareness and recognition of diversity.
  
3. Demonstrate knowledge of how to address power & knowledge imbalances in service users’ personal situations, and with professionals.  

Skills and Attributes  

Successful students will typically:  

1. Gather, analyse and review complex and/or contradictory information quickly and effectively, using it to reach professional decisions that are fully informed by the principles of person-centred care.  

2. Work collaboratively with the person or people concerned, their carers and other professionals to evaluate possible options and outcomes, to assess how they might understand what is happening and to ensure that as far as possible they are fully involved at each stage of the safeguarding process.  

3. Recognise and promote people’s rights to autonomy and self-determination, willingness to support and challenge as appropriate with a clear understanding of when to intervene, when not to, and how to account for this, within positive risk-taking approaches.