Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2009/10 |
AS30231: Social policy and practice in youth work |
 Credits: |
6 |
| Level: |
Honours |
| Period: | This unit is available in... |
| Semester 1 at Swindon College |
| Assessment: |
CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites: |
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| Description: | Aims: The aims of this unit are to ensure that students: * Are able to demonstrate their understanding of the effects of social policies on youth workers. * Are able to critically assess the theoretical aspects of approaches to social policy. * Are able to explain the development of national and local policies towards young people. Learning Outcomes: On completion of the unit students should be able to: * Describe critically the expansion of youth work policy and its impact on practice. * Explain different theoretical approaches to the provision of youth work and social welfare. * Identify and evaluate social pressure; linking significant issues in the study of social influence, groups in society, processes, functions, roles. * Explain the structure of policies affecting disengaged young people together with specialist practice focussed on marginalised groups: including women, black youth, young people with disabilities and LGBT young people. Skills: At the end of the unit students will have gained the following skills: * Cognition, communication, information technology and basic management skills. Content: The syllabus for this unit concentrates on: * Development of youth policy * Policy development working towards inclusion * Links between social policy and youth justice * Influences upon social policy * Political bias and influences on youth policy. |