Undergraduate Course: Social Work and the Law (UG) (SCWR10016)

Course Outline
School	School of Social and Political Science	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	This course aims to ensure students have a good understanding of the Scottish Legal system and detailed knowledge of professional law of relevance to practice.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites	Students MUST have passed: Social Work: Making A Difference (SCWR08003) AND Social Work: Policy and Legal Frameworks (SCWR08004) AND Social Policy and Society (SCPL08004) AND Politics of the Welfare State (SCPL08005) AND From Research into Practice: Landmarks in Social Work Research (SCWR08005)	Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course participants will be able to describe and evaluate: 1. Legal bases for intervention and the significance of relationships with statutory social services, especially education, housing, health, criminal justice, income maintenance and with other services provided by partner voluntary organisations and support groups; 2. The concepts of rights, responsibility, freedom, authority and power associated with the practice of social workers as moral and statutory agents. 3. Social workers' roles as statutory agents with duties and responsibilities to protect the public and uphold the law; 4. The significance of legislative and legal frameworks, service standards, practice guidelines and codes of practice. 5. The nature of legal authority, the application of legislation in practice, statutory responsibility and conflicts between statute, policy and practice. 6. Up-to-date legislation defining the rights of people, especially measures designed to tackle all forms of discrimination.