ECP703 - Child Protection

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1: Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Nicole Downes
Cohort rule:Nil
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: ECP303
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

Online independent and collaborative learning activities including weekly engagement with materials and responses in discussion forums

Note:

*Community Based Delivery (CBD) is for National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute students only.

Content

This unit prepares teachers (and allied professionals) for their statutory obligations in preventing, identifying, responding to and notifying suspected child abuse. The unit seeks to develop teachers' (and other professionals’) competence in the area of school-based child protection in particular. Knowledge and skills in recognising all forms of child abuse and understanding the contexts in which it occurs will be developed throughout the unit.

The operation of child protection services will be examined and the potential for teachers' effective collaboration explored. Teachers will be encouraged to apply their research and analysis skills in a variety of ways, for example, designing professional development offerings in child protection, incorporating personal safety education in the curriculum, forging community links and evaluating school policy and procedures against relevant policy/legislative frameworks.

Topics to be addressed in this unit include:

  • Mandatory reporting/notification of child abuse
  • researching and analysing child maltreatment (causes and effects)
  • appropriately responding to disclosures of abuse
  • curriculum in prevention education
  • child protection resources
  • community services and policy (school/departmental/system), and
  • diversity and heightened vulnerability (e.g. children with disability, children in out-of-home care and cultural factors).
ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Articulate and respond to their legal/ethical and professional obligations in relation to child maltreatment and demonstrate an awareness of, and ability to contribute to multi-professional relationships

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

ULO2

Apply research skills to identify and analyse the causes of and contexts (including factors which contribute to heightened vulnerability) in which child maltreatment occurs

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO3

Create appropriate responses to disclosures of suspected child abuse and justify decisions/courses of action (eg accurate identification of maltreatment and choice of notification/referral pathway) using case study scenarios

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO5: Problem solving

ULO4

Evaluate policy and practice (including curriculum, pedagogy, procedures and resources) either at local (eg school/community), state, national (or international) levels according to the child protection literature

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO5: Problem solving

ULO5

Design programs of prevention education and /or professional development in child protection according to the literature

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO5: Problem solving

ULO6

Contribute to an online activity with other class members

GLO3: Digital literacy

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 - Report: 2000 words 40% Week 7
Assessment 2 - Application: 2500 words 50% Week 11
Assessment 3 - CloudDeakin Participation:  500 words 10% Week 11

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link ECP703
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list.

Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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