Foundation Degree (FdA)

Child Centred and Therapeutic Practice

Introduction

This is an innovative new programme providing our practitioners, foster carers and staff with professionally relevant education and training. The programme is suitable for those in a wide variety of roles working directly with children and young people (or managing/supervising this work), including residential workers, foster carers, family/parent support workers, respite carers and staff working in a supportive capacity. This list is not exhaustive - we welcome enquiries and applications.

The programme has been developed carefully with stakeholders, including employers, and is also mapped against the new Professional Practice Standards for Residential Child Care (CWDC 2010), currently being piloted nationally.

On successful completion of the Foundation degree students can progress to BA(Hons) Children and Young People and we are intending to develop other options too, for example, a BA(Hons) Social Pedagogy.

The FdA Child Centred and Therapeutic Practice will appeal to those:

• Seeking a work-based/supported route through to Foundation degree and who have the support of their employer/setting
  
  
• Wanting to develop specialist knowledge, skills and reflective capacity for improving child centred and therapeutic practice with children and young people
  
  
• Wanting to integrate a programme of study alongside their work/volunteering, and which recognises and validates work-based learning
  
  
• Needing a flexible, accessible and competitively priced degree programme
  
  
• Committed to substantive personal and professional development
  
  Duration
  
  This programme can be taken full time over two years.

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