**Make a real difference to the lives of children and young people families and communities on a course that equips you to have an impact locally nationally and globally.**
This course combines practical experience and research-informed theory to provide you with a thorough current understanding of the needs of children and young people. You explore child development and child welfare as well as social policies and legislative frameworks. This includes the right to equal access to services and life opportunities regardless of social difference.
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**Make a real difference to the lives of children and young people families and communities on a course that equips you to have an impact locally nationally and globally.**<br/><br/>This course combines practical experience and research-informed theory to provide you with a thorough current understanding of the needs of children and young people. You explore child development and child welfare as well as social policies and legislative frameworks. This includes the right to equal access to services and life opportunities regardless of social difference.<br/><br/>In your second and third years you can choose from a range of optional units in areas such as mental health disability and youth violence. In your final year you also undertake an independent research project supported by our Social Sciences team all of whom are actively involved in research themselves.<br/><br/>**Why choose this course?**<br/>- It has a student satisfaction rate of 95% for our teaching (NSS 2022). Our Childhood and Youth courses also ranked 7th for overall student satisfaction and 2nd for Graduate Outcomes (Prospects and On-Track) out of 49 HE institutes offering the subject (Complete University Guide 2023)<br/><br/><br/>- Gain the practical skills and knowledge you need for a career working with children young people and families<br/><br/><br/>- Learn from staff with professional practice experience in youth work counselling teaching and working with looked-after children<br/><br/><br/>- Study with academics who have research expertise in areas such as child protection alternative education and school exclusion mentoring and coaching safeguarding and sexual exploitation<br/><br/><br/>- Benefit from opportunities offered by the University of Bedfordshire’s new Health & Social Care Academy run in partnership with local councils and NHS Trusts to recruit train and develop health and social care workers<br/><br/><br/>- Be able to recognise and challenge discrimination oppression and inequality across a range of services<br/><br/><br/>- There’s the option to take the course over four years and include a year’s placement in industry allowing you to gain practical skills build your CV and make contacts<br/><br/><br/>- If you need to step up into higher education start with a Foundation Year which guarantees entry to the undergraduate degree<br/><br/><br/>- The course can lead into careers in education social work and welfare youth and community work or postgraduate study<br/>
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Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
3 Years
Start Date
09/2025
Campus
Bedford Campus
Provider Details
Codes/info
Course Code
L550
Institution Code
B22
Points of Entry
Year 1
A levelUCAS TariffScottish Higher96 - 112 UCAS Tariff points Access to HE Diploma96 - 112 UCAS Tariff points Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) |
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