ECP703 - Child Protection
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)* |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | Nil |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | ECP303 |
| 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. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 1 x 3 hour on-campus seminar per non placement weeks |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 1 x 1.5 hour online seminar per non placement weeks |
Content
In this unit, students will be introduced to relevant legislation, policies and practices essential to securing children's safety and wellbeing, with children's rights and professional ethics forming a conceptual framework. This unit prepares teachers (and allied professionals) for their statutory obligations in preventing, identifying, responding to and notifying suspected child abuse. Knowledge and skills in recognising all forms of child abuse and understanding the contexts in which it occurs will be developed throughout the unit. Trauma-responsive education will be examined for its relevance in supporting children who have experienced child maltreatment and adversity.
Students will be encouraged to apply their research and analysis skills in a variety of ways, for example, designing a child safe policy, incorporating personal safety education in the curriculum, forging community links and responding to a child maltreatment scenario. 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, collaborative partnerships and obligations will be considered.
Topics to be addressed in this unit include:
- Understanding and upholding children’s rights (UN CRC)
- Mandatory reporting/notification of child abuse
- Child safe standards, legislation and ethical practice
- Diversity and heightened vulnerability (e.g. children with disability, children in out-of-home care and cultural factors)
- Researching and analysing child maltreatment (causes and effects)
- Understanding trauma and trauma-responsive education
- Appropriately responding to disclosures of abuse
- Curriculum in prevention and personal safety education
- Community support services and policy (school/departmental/system), and
- Child protection resources
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