LAW-20096 - CAB Placement (Level 5)
Coordinator: Mark Davys Room: CBC1.009 Tel: +44 1782 7 33224
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Level: Level 5
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733218

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

The CAB mini- Placement It is a community legal education module enabling you to gain work experience in an advice-based legal environment whilst providing assistance to the most vulnerable members of society. The module will enable you to become more socially aware, whilst at the same time developing valuable employability skills. The School of Law is delighted to be working in collaboration with our partners at the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) in Stoke-on-Trent in offering this innovative, active learning module.

Aims
The purpose of the module is several fold:
To enable students to develop a wide variety of skills, both academic and personal, and to deploy these to help the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) and, in particular, the public it serves;
To encourage recognition and development of skills and capabilities valued in the work place;
To enable students to further develop their legal, placement-based training and to enhance their capacity for critical self-reflection;
To enhance graduate employability.

Intended Learning Outcomes

achieve competence by completing the CAB-required skills training and self-study assessments: 2
train, critically self reflect on and evaluate learning gained from a work-based learning experience: 1,2
learn, through experience, how to 'learn on the job' - i.e., to learn to develop skills/attributes appropriate to the work environment: 1

Study hours

Initial training (12 hours)
CAB Specific Assessments (25 Hours)
Supported placement observations (12 hours)
Placement rota hours (33 hours)
Diary completion (20 hours)
Critical Self-reflection Guidance and Academic Support (4 hours)
Summative reflections (12 hours)
Reflective Assessment (32 hours)

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Reflective Analysis weighted 100%
Written critical reflection


2: Competence weighted 0%
self-study exercises