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Safeguarding - Module / MSc / PgCert / PgDip

Birmingham City University

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Course options

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  • Qualification

    MSc - Master of Science

  • Location

    Online

  • Study mode

    Part time

  • Start date

    22-SEP-25

  • Duration

    9 Months

Course summary

This exciting programme enables multi-agency professionals to learn in a lively and dynamic environment, to advance safeguarding knowledge and skills. The aim of this course is to bring real and positive change to the safeguarding of children, young people and adults, through developing personal, professional and organisational capacity to evaluate wide-ranging interventions in diverse contexts.

What's covered in the course?

On this course, you will gain in-depth knowledge and critical awareness of the legal, ethical, and practice issues which underpin safeguarding practice for children, young people and adults across the life-cycle. You will develop critical leadership and research skills, helping you to analyse and apply a range of safeguarding theories to protect and support people in diverse settings and contexts.

You will explore topics such as:

  • The legal, ethical and professional practice issues surrounding safeguarding
  • Contemporary themes and key issues within the current safeguarding agenda
  • Vulnerabilities, thresholds and risk assessment within safeguarding vulnerable people
  • Complex multi-agency safeguarding casework and interventions including socio-economic influences, resilience, and the complexities of working with a culturally diverse community
  • Findings and learning from research, serious case reviews, rapid reviews, SARs (Safeguarding Adults Review), inquiries, reports and literature applied to theory and practice
  • Theories, styles, principles and processes of leadership that impact upon safeguarding

Enhancing your employability

This programme would meet CPD requirements for many staff across all agencies and contribute to a better informed workforce and 鈥榝ill a gap in the adult educational market.

The programme fosters inter-agency working 鈥� a key safeguarding priority as well as giving students a formal qualification in Safeguarding, enabling them to demonstrate an ability to study safeguarding at Masters level.

This course will contribute to your employability for roles with an emphasis on safeguarding, for example lead roles for safeguarding within organisations as well as meeting CPD requirements for staff.

Students can exit with PGCert & PGDip awards.

Module - 9 months

MSc - 3 years

PgCert - 1 year

PgDip - 2 years

Application deadline

18/07/2025

Tuition fees

Students living in Hong Kong
(International fees)

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University information

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Birmingham City University

Birmingham City University

  • University League Table

    92nd

  • Campus address

    Birmingham City University, University House, 15 Bartholomew Row, Birmingham, Birmingham, B5 5JU, England

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Live and study in an affordable multicultural city with a diverse multi-ethnic population.
Many master's courses offer international students optional six-month professional placements towards the end of their studies.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Computer Science

    69th out of 117 3

  • Entry standards

    / Max 227
    127 56%

    68th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    79.0 79%

    67th

    4

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.16 79%

    16th

    9

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