Pen Green Centre for children and their families

The aims of this module are to enable students to…

• Understand personal, professional and legal responsibilities within early years and integrated services
• Understand how legal and professional responsibilities impact on practice
• Be able to analyse an incident from practice

In this module you will consider current legal and professional responsibilities within the field of early childhood. You will have the opportunity to reflect upon a work based incident, evidencing the underpinning legal and professional responsibilities undertaken. You will be encouraged to reflect on how you currently work with families, colleagues and other professionals in and beyond your own setting. Reading, referencing and ethics considerations will be discussed through the module.

This module is assessed on coursework (pass/fail).

The expectation is that students attend all scheduled learning and teaching sessions.

If there are exceptional circumstances which result in a student being unable to fulfill this, the student should discuss these with the Course Lead.

Programme/module requirements, including those attendance, must be met and students are responsible for making good work missed through absence.

Knowledge and Understanding:

Successful students will typically:

• Examine legal and professional responsibilities within the field of early years
• Know and understand how to respond, within the parameters of own professional role, to potential issues within practice

Skills and Attributes:

Successful students will typically:

• Know and understand how to critically analyse an incident from practice and share the learning from this process
• Know and understand how to work ethically and collaboratively with parents, colleagues and/or professionals from other agencies

Scheduled Teaching, campus−based activities in general teaching spaces (e.g.lectures, 20 seminars, tutorials) 10 hours

Scheduled campus−based activities in specialist teaching spaces (e.g practical classes, 25 workshops, demonstrations) 5 hours

Directed independent study 35 hours

Self-directed independent study 100 hours

Total hours 150

You will be supported to access relevant reading resources and provided with opportunities to hear practice based case studies where practitioners have worked alongside other professionals and families in order to resolve a critical incident. You will be supported to use the critical incident analysis technique (Flanagan, 1954) during the study week.

Speakers will be invited to the study week from relevant external agencies to ensure that you are able to access current guidance, relevant to your own professional responsibilities.