Social Care

This specialist award in Social Care is designed for those who want to develop a career within the expanding social care sector. It offers opportunities to study specialist areas of social care and includes:

- the provision of formal and informal care

- the knowledge, core values and ethics that underpin social care provision

- the assessment, management and organisation of social care and

- specialisms in, child care, adult care and elder care that focus on : the child in trouble; substance misuse; mental health; and learning disability

Graduates gain careers, mostly in the public and not-for-profit sector including:

- care management,

- housing associations and various forms of supported living,

- early year settings (work with children under 5),

- supporting young people,

- supporting people with a learning disability,

- supporting older people,

- policy research and development and advocacy

Graduates in social care with a good honours degree (2:1 or above) are eligible to apply for a Master’s level qualifying social work award.