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.
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