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LAW-40002 - Module Specification
School of Law
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 04 March 2025

LAW-40002 - Contemporary issues in child care
Coordinator: Elizabeth Faulkner
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 7
Credits: 30
Study Hours: 300
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

In this module you will explore in more detail the legal framework and current child protection practice within its social, cultural and political context. You will focus in particular on current, emerging and often controversial child protection themes and dilemmas. You will cover a range of topical issues such as, for example, youth justice, international perspectives on exploited children, forced marriage, asylum and `modern slaveryż or child trafficking, and child witnesses.

Aims
This module aims to integrate a detailed examination of the legal framework and current child protection practice with an examination of some of the understandings and explanatory models which underpin existing and developing knowledge about child maltreatment. It seeks to locate such knowledge within a social, cultural and political context and will focus in particular on current, emerging and often controversial child protection themes and dilemmas.

Talis Aspire Reading List
Any reading lists will be provided by the start of the course.
http://lists.lib.keele.ac.uk/modules/law-40002/lists

Intended Learning Outcomes

Critically examine a range of contemporary issues in child protection: 1
Locate these contemporary issues in their social, political, and cultural context: 1
Critically evaluate the legal and policy issues involved in responding to these forms of abuse: 1
Demonstrate a critical awareness of relevant research and policy literature around these contemporary issues in child protection: 1

Study hours

20 x hours of classroom teaching
2 x hours of staff-student consultation on assignment writing
278 independent research and writing assignment

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Essay weighted 100%
5000 WORDS


The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 04 March 2025