School of Children, Young People and Families

Welcome to the School of Children, Young People and Families where we are focused on being a positive force to change society. As a School, we are grounded in understanding child development and exploring approaches that make a lifelong impact on children and their families. We do this by creating a culture of care where your sense of belonging as a member of this School is just as important as the sense of wellbeing you inspire in children and families. 

Within the School, we offer a range of programmes that evolve around understanding the lives of children, how best to support their development, and making impactful interventions when families face difficulties. Our modules consider practical interventions that support children’s happiness, mitigate the risks of health inequalities, or support special educational needs and disabilities. All our programmes are career-focused, supporting you to explore the vast number of professional roles available when within children and families, or enhancing your career further within this meaningful profession.

There is a strong emphasis on social justice throughout our programmes, learning how to change the lives of children and families and rebalance inequalities. This can be within impactful interventions for supporting mental health, anti-social behaviour, or early communication and language skills. We consider trauma-informed practice to support social and emotional wellbeing and embrace meaningful reflective practice to support your professional wellbeing.   

Alongside these programmes we also have our philosophy, ethics and religion programme. Modules cover a diversity of topics and perspectives whilst examining issues of both pressing contemporary and perennial importance. Our philosophy modules explore the nature of reality, the existence of God, what it means to be human, and much more besides. Our ethics modules will teach you how to think about complicated real-world issues in a thoughtful, rigorous, and compassionate way. Finally, our religion modules will help you to understand what people believe, why they believe it, the important role that religion can play in people’s lives, and how it shapes decision-making at both a personal and societal level helping you to better understand, and change, contemporary society and the modern world.

You’ll be inspired to explore a range of professional roles, and studying programmes that open doors across a variety of exciting careers. Modules are dynamic and co-created, with rich teaching and learning sessions that research-active tutors and local employers inform. As a School, we provide a genuine commitment to your development, raising confidence and academic achievement simultaneously. Joining us can help you become a positive force to change society.