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Childhood and Youth Studies with Foundation Year

Entry requirements


A level

C-B

Successfully completed Access Diploma course

32 - 48 UCAS Tariff Points

UCAS Tariff

32-48

About this course


Course option

4years

Full-time | 2024

Subject

Childhood and youth studies

**Make a real difference to the lives of children and young people families and communities on a course that equips you to have an impact locally nationally and globally.**

This course combines practical experience and research-informed theory to provide you with a thorough current understanding of the needs of children and young people. You explore child development and child welfare as well as social policies and legislative frameworks. This includes the right to equal access to services and life opportunities regardless of social difference.

In your second and third years you can choose from a range of optional units in areas such as mental health disability and youth violence. In your final year you also undertake an independent research project supported by our Social Sciences team all of whom are actively involved in research themselves.

**Why choose this course?**
- It has a student satisfaction rate of 95% for our teaching (NSS 2022). Our Childhood and Youth courses also ranked 7th for overall student satisfaction and 2nd for Graduate Outcomes (Prospects and On-Track) out of 49 HE institutes offering the subject (Complete University Guide 2023)

- Gain the practical skills and knowledge you need for a career working with children young people and families

- Learn from staff with professional practice experience in youth work counselling teaching and working with looked-after children

- Study with academics who have research expertise in areas such as child protection alternative education and school exclusion mentoring and coaching safeguarding and sexual exploitation

- Benefit from opportunities offered by the University of Bedfordshire’s new Health & Social Care Academy run in partnership with local councils and NHS Trusts to recruit train and develop health and social care workers

- Be able to recognise and challenge discrimination oppression and inequality across a range of services

- There’s the option to take the course over four years and include a year’s placement in industry allowing you to gain practical skills build your CV and make contacts

- If you need to step up into higher education start with a Foundation Year which guarantees entry to the undergraduate degree

- The course can lead into careers in education social work and welfare youth and community work or postgraduate study

Modules

Areas of study may include:
- Narratives of childhood and youth
- Working together Multi-agency approaches to risk and assessment in child welfare
- Gangs and serious youth violence
- Disability in childhood: critical perspectives on policy and practice
- Child protection and safeguarding: the contexts of vulnerability
- Special educational needs and challenging behaviour in schooling
- Youth Justice : models and approaches

Every effort is made to ensure this information is accurate at the point of publication on the UCAS website. For the most up-to-date information, please refer to our website.

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

Channel Islands
£9,250
per year
England
£9,250
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,250
per year
Republic of Ireland
£9,250
per year
Scotland
£9,250
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year

The Uni


Course locations:

Bedford Campus

Luton Campus

Department:

School of Applied Social Science

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What students say


We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

93%
Childhood and youth studies

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Childhood and youth studies

Teaching and learning

93%
Staff make the subject interesting
93%
Staff are good at explaining things
93%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
93%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

83%
Library resources
87%
IT resources
87%
Course specific equipment and facilities
80%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

93%
UK students
7%
International students
1%
Male students
99%
Female students
54%
2:1 or above
42%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

C
E
D

After graduation


The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Childhood and youth studies

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£18,000
low
Average annual salary
100%
med
Employed or in further education

Top job areas of graduates

59%
Welfare professionals
16%
Welfare and housing associate professionals
5%
Teaching and educational professionals

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Childhood and youth studies

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£29k

£29k

£31k

£31k

£32k

£32k

Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

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