Social Work – (M.Sc.)

This two-year programme is provided under the new framework for Social Work qualifications. It is a joint professional practice and academic award. Completion fulfils the registration requirements of the General Social Care Council (GSCC) and entitles you to register and practice as a qualified professional social worker.

We are committed to ensuring that users of the personal social services have effective workers who uphold the dignity of individuals and, where possible, establish a shared approach to problem solving. You will develop an understanding of the structural and personal factors that lead to oppression and discrimination and learn to work within an anti-oppression framework. You will develop skills as reflective practitioners, appraising relevant evidence, including research, to evaluate your own and others' work, and to contribute to the development of policy and practice.

We have partnerships with social work agencies (including statutory, voluntary and independent agencies who have worked with us to develop the new programme) and links with service-user and carer organisations (whose staff have taught on our programmes and helped us to develop our policy and practice). A new forum ensures that service-user and carer perspectives inform teaching and learning and permeate all other aspects of the programme. Students are also stakeholders, and your ideas are highly valued.

Social work is a regulated profession. As a social work student you will be expected to register with the General Social Care Council (GSCC), the social work profession's regulator, and adhere to the standards set out in the Code of Practice for Social Workers.

As well as regulating individual social workers and students, the GSCC also regulate the performance of social work courses, the reports of which are published on their website, so you can check to see how each university is performing.

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