MSc Child Protection and Adult Safeguarding at Buckinghamshire New University

Gain the skills and experience you need to safeguard and protect the most vulnerable.

Faculty: Health and Social Care  |  Duration: One Year  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: January and September 2027  |  Location: High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

The course uses a contemporary and innovate method of teaching which values your input into the teaching content. Therefore any current trends in safeguarding can be explored and changes in policy considered by it's impact on your individual safeguarding practices. Core modules include Comparative Safeguarding Studies, Reflective Practice and Supervision in Safeguarding, Safeguarding Legislation: Children and Families, Safeguarding Legislation: Adults and Mental Health, Dissertation, Critical Practice in Safeguarding OR, Critical Perspectives in Safeguarding. Optional modules include Leadership, Management and Professional Issues, Essential Skills in Motivational Interviewing.

Career pathways

If you want to develop a career in safeguarding practice, this course will prepare you for job roles such as policy developer, researcher, team leader, programme manager or unit manager in the NHS, local government and charities. Previous students have seen their careers soar on completion of the programme, as they are then considered ‘experts’ or ‘specialists’ with a broad range of knowledge to build on and have usually demonstrated this through their dissertation research or project.

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