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MSc Advanced Residential Childcare

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    Part-time: 24 months

Course Description

The course is unique in the UK in offering a Masters-level award specifically in residential child care. It has been developed to support the development of direct practice and leadership in the residential child care sector in Scotland and beyond.

Consensus is growing that residential child care practice is complex, challenging and requires requisite knowledge, skills and capacities of the workforce. If children and young people are to have positive care experiences which improve their life chances, then those who care for them, and those who support those who care for them, must be supported in developing and maintaining that knowledge.

The MSc in Advanced Residential Child Care has been developed within the School of Social Work and Social Policy alongside the Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS) to support the development of direct practice and leadership in the residential child care sector in Scotland and beyond.

Entry Requirements

Undergraduate Honours Degree (Second Class) or equivalent qualifications and experience. Applicants with HNC/SVQ3/SVQ4 qualifications will be asked to provide a supporting written assignment. Students with professional or academic qualifications other than social work will be considered.

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Module Details

  • Critical perspectives on residential child care
  • Understanding and assessing in children’s life-spaces
  • Ethical leadership and management in residential child care
  • Skilled and reflective use of self in residential child care
  • Intervening effectively in residential child care
  • Methods: ethical and effective research in residential child care
  • Professional enquiry in residential child care: dissertation

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