University of Central Lancashire, School of Social Work, Care and the Community Masters Degrees

The Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) PGCert at UCLan has been developed in collaboration with the regional Local Authorities. Read more

This course offers the opportunity of postgraduate study for practitioners in social work and social care in the broad settings of child, adult and mental health care. Read more

This course provides a flexible and wide choice of modules for students to tailor their study to their own interests or requirements. Aims of the course… Read more

This PG Cert is a new programme aimed at mental health practitioners across the health and social care sector who would like to develop their CPD through further academic study. Read more

This course has embraced a totally unique method of doctoral study, as it is the first within the United Kingdom to deliver totally online doctoral study in the fields of community development and social work and allied professions. Read more

Leading to a postgraduate certificate, this part-time online programme is designed for UK based and international postgraduate students who are committed to developing their research skills in a practice or policy social care context, as independent researchers. Read more

Safeguarding children is a high profile area of work, where decision making carries a high order of risk for children, their families and those engaged with them. Read more

Social Policy has been defined as the study of the collective and individual procedures through which people gain access to life-enhancing and sustaining experiences such as education, health care, housing, income during periods of cessation and interruption of earnings, and the care associated with the loss of autonomy and independence. Read more

Leading to a professional qualification in social work, UCLan’s MA Social Work course has been developed in close co-operation with social work agencies in the voluntary, independent and statutory sectors and in conjunction with service users and carers. Read more

In the challenging arena of specialist child care practice it is essential that practitioners have opportunities to develop their learning and education to enhance their skills and knowledge. Read more

Specialist practice with adults is facing a challenging period of transformation in relation to implementing new law such as the Care Act 2014, managing the demands of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and reacting to organisational changes. Read more