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309024 (v.1) SW 480 - Child Protection


Area: Department of Social Work and Social Policy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 2.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 309049 (v.1) SW 580 - Child Protection or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 2801 (v.7) SW 262 - Fieldwork Practice 1 or any previous version
 
Syllabus: This unit will explore the history, dilemmas and practices of statutory, child protection social work, focusing particularly on skills and knowledge that will assist students seeking to work in this area. The unit focus throughout will be to critically review existing discourses of much child protection social work. Course material and experiences will seek to foster the student's capacity for critical reflexivity and build a sense of humility about what professionals think they know and can achieve inthe contested domain of child protection.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 
Field of Education: 061300 Public Health (Narrow Grouping)
Funding Cluster: 06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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