Course summary
This exciting course breaks new ground. Its purpose is to find innovative ways to safeguard people’s wellbeing from childhood to adulthood. It brings together students working in health, education, social care, housing, sports and community organisations and across people’s life course, from antenatal care to the care of our older populations, and those keen to be change-makers in these fields. The course encourages students to consider the implications for their organisation’s learning and service delivery. It develops students’ leadership of culture change by supporting them to integrate research, by pooling expertise, real-life experience and reflection. Key features
- The course is made up of two mandatory modules and takes two years. You will take one module each year. The course’s flexible-and-distributed delivery enables you to learn while also striking a manageable work, life and study balance. It is designed with the busy professional in mind.
- You do not necessarily need an undergraduate degree to apply successfully. Details about admissions and applications are provided below.
- Independent online learning is blended with twilight discussion and debate. This allows you the independence of managing your own time and energy while also developing professional and social networks through our regular face-to-face discussions.
Modules
Module 1 – Learning Cultures in Safeguarding: Reflective Organisations This module engages critically with theories of professional learning in order to reflect on safeguarding cultures. You will learn how to adapt them, showing how organisational learning may characterise effective safeguarding work. We critique compliance culture and build reflective organisations in children’s and adult services. Module 2 – Cultures of Vigilance: Reflexive Leaders This module supports you to lead the development of cultures of vigilance within children’s and adult services. You learn how to sustain them by engaging reflexively with inspection and regulatory frameworks. You identify opportunities to lead change and examine at least one critical development in your own practice that moves you from reflective practice to reflexive leadership.
Assessment method
The summative assessment for each module is to produce a 3000-word reflective portfolio. These 3000 words are comprised of five separate 600-word personal reflections on learning that are written throughout the academic year. At least one of these uploads should be audio visually presented and run to an equivalent length of time to a 600-word piece of writing (about 10 minutes). These 3000 words will be assessed according to the module’s intended learning outcomes.
Entry requirements
The course seeks to recruit practitioners, professionals, volunteers or those with significant interest in current safeguarding protection practices and challenges, reflecting the needs of a diverse student group. There is no requirement for applicants to be in relevant work or to have the support of their employer. Nor is there a need to have an undergraduate BA (hons) degree to apply successfully for this postgraduate certificate. Instead, applications will be assessed based on an application form and essay. Please see the University website for full details.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Additional fee information
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Provider information
University of Worcester
Henwick Grove
Worcester
WR2 6AJ