About the course

This course is aimed specifically for those wanting to work with children and/or families in a variety of settings. It will give you the skills and knowledge to pursue or develop your career in areas such as early years, nursery worker or manager, family support worker/manager, child protection, pastoral support roles in primary education. It runs alongside the MA in Childhood, Youth and Family Studies: Youth Work Pathway

Your studies will provide a broad level of understanding which will allow you to build your knowledge and critically consider the theoretical underpinning of work across children’s, youth and family services. You will explore the cultural and social constructions of childhood, youth and families, including the impacts that such constructions have on children and young people’s everyday lives.

This course offers evidence-based knowledge and skills acquired from theory, practice, research and policy to the changing contexts of childhood, youth and families in a globalised world. You will be able to understand the relationship between children’s rights, the ideologies and responsibilities for welfare and the application of such in the diversity of experiences across children’s, young people and family lives.

This course will enhance your employability and career prospects across professional boundaries within children’s and young people’s services by facilitating the identification and the application of new learning within professional contexts.

How will this course improve my career prospects?

This course is designed to enable you to enhance your career prospects by broadening and deepening your knowledge and understanding of lives of children and young people and the services available to them. Students often go on to work in areas such as youth work, social welfare, education, specialising either in children, young people or family work. This course also helps students to progress into more senior positions and further develop their practice, or go on to become policy-makers.