Working with Children, Young People and Families (Hons) University of Northampton

Overview

Driven by values of inclusion, empowerment and social justice, this exciting degree supports your academic and professional development to enhance your skills and career prospects so that you can make a positive impact for children, young people and families. You will explore a range of topics and key issues, including poverty, mental health, youth offending, safeguarding and anti-discriminatory practice.

This degree will help you to navigate a breadth of theoretical, practical and social issues that challenge and support ever-transforming services for children, young people and families.

Course Details:

The Working with children, Young People and Families course offered at the University of Northampton has been designed to contribute towards achieving the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Good Health and Wellbeing and Quality Education.

This course produces graduates who can address gaps in provision and improve the services available to children, young people, their families and the wider community. Your studies cover the whole spectrum of working with children, young people and families.

This course will help you to:

• develop knowledge and understanding of children, young people and families within diverse cultural, inter-disciplinary and multi-professional contexts
• acquire a critical understanding of relevant theory and research in the field of children, young people and families and equip you with the skills for independent investigation
• critically analyse contemporary issues and debates in policy, practice and services for children, young people and families including international perspectives
• become an articulate, confident and reflective graduate, capable of making informed career choices and transferring your knowledge to a range of relevant contexts and making a positive impact.

Throughout the Working with Children, Young People and Families degree, you will learn through the use of seminars, workshops, work-based activities, online learning and self-directed study. 

There are no exams on this degree. Instead, you will be assessed through a range of methods including interviews, reports, case studies, presentations, practical projects and reflective tasks. Your teaching is consolidated to help make the best use of your time. You might expect to be in university two or three days a week. This helps free up the rest of your timetable for tutorials, working on your assignments and gaining valuable work experience.

Career Opportunities

The graduates from of course have gained employment in a range of areas, for example, as a

• Youth Offending Officer
• Family Support Worker
• Mental Health Support Worker
• MASH Officer
• Youth Worker
• Drug and Alcohol Worker
• Housing Officer
• Residential Keyworker
• School Counsellor
• Play Worker