Core Module Information
Module title: Child Protection in Context

SCQF level: 11:
SCQF credit value: 20.00
ECTS credit value: 10

Module code: NMS11134
Module leader: Lindsey Robb
School School of Health & Social Care
Subject area group: Nursing
Prerequisites

n/a

Description of module content:

In this module, you will have the opportunity to explore children’s needs and rights, conflicting rights, as well as changing definitions and social constructions of childhood and child abuse. Also included in the module are a review of an ecological understanding of child development and attachment theory and both a theoretical and empirical understanding of the impact of abuse and neglect, which includes taking a critical approach to the concepts of resilience, adversity, and vulnerability. The importance of changing societies, international perspectives, and issues of equality and diversity will be highlighted.

You will be introduced to how we can learn from public inquiries and serious and significant case reviews, contextualising their impact upon legislation, policy, and practice, including multi-agency working, professional roles and responsibilities, and information sharing.
Working and making decisions with parents and families will be considered alongside exploring the factors which can promote and undermine positive parenting and the capacity for parenting, including in particular the role of environmental factors and the impact of poverty upon both parenting and child development. Both structural and individualist explanations of poverty are considered, as are some theories as to why abuse occurs. All of this sets the context for understanding primary, secondary and tertiary intervention and different paradigmatic approaches to child protection.

Learning Outcomes for module:

LO1: Analyse the factors that influence society’s attitudes towards, and response to, child abuse and child protection
LO2: Critically explore the literature on adversity, resilience, vulnerability and protective factors and their impact upon child development
LO3: Evaluate the evidence that exists to determine factors considered to have a potentially adverse or positive impact on parenting capacity
LO4: Critically examine the impact of environmental factors on the well-being of children
LO5: Critically reflect upon the evidence, legislation and policy that inform professional responses to families in which there is a risk of abuse or abuse has occurred

Full Details of Teaching and Assessment

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NMS11134 Child Protection in Context