15Nov
Undergraduate This course is not accepting applications for deferred entry.
This course is subject to validation. You can still apply for this course while it is being approved.
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Course summary
Social workers are key to supporting individuals and communities, from child protection to mental health. Our degree equips you with the practical skills, knowledge, and resilience to become a confident, effective, and compassionate social worker. You'll learn everything from social work theories to professional skills, ensuring you're ready to help adults and children in various settings. By the end of the course, you’ll be eligible to register with Social Work England and start your career in a field that makes a real impact.
- Industry informed teaching: Learn from experienced staff with real-world social work practice, teaching, and research expertise, ensuring your learning experience is high-quality and up-to-date with contemporary issues, advancements and debates within the sector.
- Gain real-world insight: Get direct input from people with lived experience, including co-taught lectures and assessments.
- Flexible career paths: Gain the flexibility to work with both adults and children, opening doors to diverse career opportunities.
- Boost your employability: Complete two assessed practical placements in a variety of settings, statutory, voluntary, and charitable, with children, young people, and adults allowing you to apply theory to real-world situations.
- Build key skills: Build valuable transferable skills through interprofessional learning alongside students from nursing, criminal justice, teaching, and more.
- Focused learning: Modules are delivered through our block teaching approach, so you can concentrate on one subject at a time.
Modules
FIRST YEAR: Preparation for Social Work Practice Introduction to Law, Policy and Procedure Understanding the Life Span (Human growth and development) Introduction to Social Work Theories and Skills in practice SECOND YEAR: Practice Placement (70 days) Law for Social Work Practice Research informed practice Social Work Theories, Processes and Skills in Practice Inter-Professional Education (IPE) THIRD YEAR: Research Project The Developing Professional Practitioner Professional Judgement and Decision Making Final Practice Placement (100 days)
Assessment method
To ensure students are ready to practice, they are assessed in their first year through a communication exercise with a service user or carer and a shadowing exercise where they will shadow a social worker in their practice with service users and reflect on this experience. In addition, you will be required to pass both the second and third year placements
How to apply
14Jan
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:
- L502
- Institution code:
- D26
- Campus name:
- Leicester Campus
- Campus code:
- Y
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 120 points
A level
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - DDM
Access to HE Diploma
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 30 points
T Level - M
Work experience Although not essential, some relevant social care experience – paid or voluntary, is desirable and can strengthen your application with us. Work experience will form part of the scoring criteria used at your interview. Please tell us in your personal statement, and at interview details of the length of time spent gaining relevant social care experience and the type of social care experience you have. You should also clearly demonstrate your motivations and suitability to study and train as a social work practitioner, and how your experience relates to the role.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Additional entry requirements
Criminal records declaration (DBS/Disclosure Scotland)
Interview
English language requirements
If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 7.0 or equivalent when you start the course is essential.
Student Outcomes
Operated by the Office for Students
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
Go onto work and study
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £9535 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9535 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £9535 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9535 | Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | £9535 | Year 1 |
| Republic of Ireland | £9535 | Year 1 |
| EU | £16800 | Year 1 |
| International | £16800 | 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 UK fees, subject to a compounded annual inflationary increase announced by the government in October 2025, the amount of which is yet to be confirmed for the 2026/27 academic year.
Provider information
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH