The Team Around the Child

This module aims to enable students to understand the principles and terminology associated with UK social policy and to apply theoretical concepts, models and approaches to their own interprofessional practice in early learning and childcare.  

Students will research child poverty in the UK and policy to eliminate child poverty. Students will retrospectively examine Scottish Early Childhood policy milestones and will critically analyse Getting It Right for Every Child, The Early Years Framework, community development and planning as well as current initiatives such as A Blueprint for 2020: The Expansion of Early Learning and Childcare in Scotland and Closing the Attainment Gap.   

Students will examine the ecological systems, influences and diversities that can affect children’s lives.  Perceptions of childhood in society and the importance of children’s rights and autonomy will be debated.  Models of partnership and teamworking will be explored and students will be encouraged to lead their own critical examination into how partnership methods and approaches are practised by diverse professional teams; identifying some of the barriers and challenges of working with different agencies/expertise.  

The module will analyse interprofessional collaboration in early childhood centres and students will apply principles of teamworking to their own practice in integrated working to build the capacities of individuals, families and communities.  Students will evaluate their own innovative approaches towards building relationships with children, parents and staff and will be encouraged to reflect upon their own interprofessional development in relation to the MetaSkills/Graduate Attributes required within the ELC standard. 

At the end of this module the student will be able to:

• ​​Identify and examine the principles and terminology associated with UK social policy and explore the development of interprofessional practice in Early Learning and Childcare
  
• ​​Critically analyse the diversity of children’s lived lives and develop a broad, integrated knowledge of the benefits of building relationships with parents and involving them in the work and life of the early childhood setting
  
• Draw upon a range of research to develop a critical understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the different agencies that can provide support to children and families
• Use knowledge and understanding of theory, concepts and specialisms to develop and to critically evaluate their own interprofessional work-based practice within an Early Learning and Childcare setting

This is an SCQF Level 9 module and upon successful completion, participants will be awarded 20 credits.

Delivery

The module will be delivered at Lanarkshire campus or online on Fridays, time to be confirmed.

Course presenter

This module will be delivered by Dean Armstrong.

NOTE: This is a university module and upon approval of your application, you will be invited to register and then supported to complete enrolment. To enrol on the university system, the first step involves security set-up using the Microsoft Authenticator app; you will need to ensure that you have a compatible smartphone.

Further information is available at the Student Information Portal.

To access this module via the CPD route, individuals should be ordinarily resident in Scotland.  If you do not meet this criteria, please enquire here.