This course is available in Clearing. If you have submitted an application, you can add this course. If you haven’t sent us an application yet, you can do this until 25th September 2024.
Staffordshire University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
Course summary
If you’re the sort of person who would like to help often-vulnerable individuals and families to improve the direction of their lives, our Social Work degree could be just the qualification you’re looking for. Regulated by Social Work England (SWE), our degree course will prepare you for a career in social work in a diverse range of social welfare settings. The content of your studies will equip you for employment in both children’s and adults’ social work, in areas such as safeguarding, community and therapeutic services. A total of 170 days of assessed practice learning, through highly rewarding vocational placements in the community, will also help ensure you are well prepared for life as a Social Worker following graduation.
Modules
Year 1 (Core): 30 Days Skills Development, Rights, Justice and Equality, Readiness for Practice, Relationship-based Social Work, Introduction to Social Work Theories, Introduction to Study Skills for Social Work and Social Care, Values, Ethics and Multi-dimensional Diversity. Year 2 (Core): Safeguarding Children and Adults at Risk, Lifespan and Human Growth and Development. There is also a 70-day assessed period of practice learning in a rewarding vocational placement. Year 3 (Core): Social Work Research Mindedness, Inter-professional Practice, Contemporary Themes in Social Work. There is also a second period of assessed practice learning (100 days).
Professional bodies
Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.
- Health and Care Professions Council
How to apply
31Jan
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
- Course code:
- L500
- Institution code:
- S72
- Campus name:
- Staffordshire University (Stoke Campus)
- Campus code:
- -
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 112 - 120 points
A level - BBC
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - DMM
Access to HE Diploma
Scottish Higher
OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma - DMM
T Level - Pass (C and above)
Additional entry requirements
Interview
Criminal records declaration (DBS/Disclosure Scotland)
Student Outcomes
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | £9250 | Year 1 |
| EU | £16750 | Year 1 |
| International | £16750 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
For further details of what is and is not included in your tuition fees please visit www.staffs.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees/
Provider information
Staffordshire University
College Road
Stoke on Trent
ST4 2DE