Learning Partnerships, Unit Catalogue 2008/09 |
AS10147 Interagency working |
| Credits: 5 |
| Level: Certificate |
| Semester: 1 at City of Bristol College |
| Semester: 1 at Norton Radstock College |
| Semester: 1 at Swindon College |
| Assessment: CW 60%, EX 40% |
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Aims: The aims of this unit are to ensure that students are:
* Familiar with the theoretical rationale for interagency working * Able to show how an understanding of the processes of informal education contribute to quality interagency work * Able to place this work firmly within the context of current thinking on social policy * Able to carry out effective social research * Able to work in a co-operative manner with other agencies * Able to run their own interagency project and evaluate it effectively * Able to distinguish between different models and theories of youth work and be able to critically evaluate their appropriateness to practice. Learning Outcomes: At the end of the unit students will have: * Understood the importance of participative working * Understood how other agencies can contribute to the effectiveness of youth work * Explored how interagency working underpins the government's agenda for youth work * Understood different models and theories of youth work including informal education and relate it to a broader understanding of social policy * Shown that they can carry out social research and understood the difficulties and limitations of such research as well as how to apply it to their youth work situation * Shown that they can critically evaluate those models * Participated in examples of interagency working * Demonstrated understanding of such work by taking the lead in a small project devised with other agencies * Shown that they can effectively evaluate such work. In addition students will continue to gain experience related to other units in group work, professional practice, evaluative and reflective practice. Skills: During the unit students will gain the following skills: * Intellectual (taught and assessed) - growth of agencies, social research, social policy, government structure locally and nationally, government policy on youth work, funding mechanisms, models and theories of youth work, informal education * Professional (facilitated) - joint working techniques, report writing * Practical (facilitated and assessed) - working with other agencies, group work, evaluation techniques, project management * Key Skills (facilitated - assessed through other units) - the skills in this unit will assist students in the demonstration of competence in the common core modules and work undertaken in this module will be expected to contribute to their portfolios in those units. Content: The syllabus for this unit concentrates on: * Development of Agencies in the UK * Growth of Governmental and Non-Governmental interventions * Development of Government policies especially from 1996 * Examples of effective and non-effective interventions * Theories and policies of youth work * Placing youth work within the wider social policy debate * Social research * SWOT analysis for interagency working * Techniques for such working * Evaluative techniques * Project management. In addition some of this unit will be carried out in the workplace using actual examples of work undertaken by the student. |