This specialist award in Social Care is designed for those who want to develop a career within the expanding social care sector. It offers opportunities to study specialist areas of social care and includes:◾the provision of formal and informal care◾the knowledge, core values and ethics that underpin social care provision◾the assessment, management and organisation of social care and◾specialisms in, child care, adult care and elder care that focus on : the child in trouble; substance misuse; mental health; and learning disability

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