ECE309 - Critical Issues in Safety and Child Protection

Unit details

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Enrolment modes:(B) (G,X-WEXP) (W,X-WEXP)
Credit point(s):.75
EFTSL value:0.094
Cohort rule:(For students enrolled in courses E420 and E421 only)
Unit chair:M Sulovski
Corequisite:ECE308
Contact hours: The Early Childhood Course at Burwood (City Program) requires the students to attend on a weekly basis i.e. Full-time students attend on a Thursday and Friday throughout the trimester, and Part-time students attend on a Friday throughout the trimester. The students undertaking the Rural Program out of Geelong and Warrnambool undertake the majority of their studies off-campus but attend Intensives 3 times a trimester for 2 days (Full-time students) and 1 day (Part-time students).

Content

In this unit, students will be introduced to relevant legislation, policies and practices essential to securing children's safety, with children's rights and professional ethics forming a conceptual framework. Child maltreatment and child protection will provide a major focus together with appropriate responses via policies, ethical practices, statutory requirements and preventive curriculum work. Attendant professional roles and obligations will be considered. Key topics include:

  • children's rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • Australian Early Childhood Association's Code of Ethics: professional implications
  • child maltreatment and its impact on child development, eg trauma and learning
  • professional and legal responsibilities for notification and support
  • types of child maltreatment, their dynamics and availability of community resources
  • recognising indicators of child abuse; receiving disclosures of abuse; responding appropriately
  • child abuse prevention; policy, protocols and personal safety teaching

Assessment

Assessment 1: Response to Ethics, safety and children's rights, 40%; (1750 words)

Assessment 2: Case Studies, 50%; (2000 words)

Assessment 3: Participation, 10% (250 words)

Prescribed texts

Briggs, F and Hawkins, R.1997, Child Protection , A guide for teachers and childcare professionals, Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Unit Fee Information

Student Contribution Rate*Student Contribution Rate**Fee rate - Domestic Students Fee rate - International students
$550$440$1724$1836

* Rate for all CSP students, except for those who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
** Rate for CSP students who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.