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Knowledge Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this module a student should be able to:
Knowledge and Understanding:
• Demonstrate a detailed professional knowledge of legal aspects including definitions and applications to their role relating to child protection.
• Debate and evaluate current research and practice regarding legal parameters highlighting the value of each and their contribution to professional practice.
Applying Knowledge and Understanding:
• Demonstrate a detailed professional knowledge from a professional’s perspective of the legal concepts and processes that underpins child protection.
• Apply and evaluate current research and practice within a moot court setting in relation to paediatric examinations and care.
Communication and Writing Skills:
• Develop professional competencies by integrating their professional skills within the legal framework to enhance their skills within the topic area and the material explored.
• Communicate accurately, effectively and reliably in written and oral format
Demonstrate an ability to source and critically analyse relevant literature.
Learning skills:
• Develop and evaluate their own professional competencies by integrating clinical supervision skills, and specialist theoretical knowledge.
• Demonstrate effective communication skills within the topic area and the material explored.
• Students will be expected to be autonomous reflective practitioners and as such work with the material in a mature and evaluative way. This will be tested via the assignment at the end of the semester
Professional Skills:
Upon successful completion of this module a student should be able to:
• Critically reflect upon their own current practice and their role regarding legal aspects in child protection within their own professional setting.
• Critically evaluate their ability to handle multifaceted issues in which judgments are made whilst reflecting upon the wider professional issues and the responsibilities of their role as a professional within legal parameters.
• Apply and analyse factual information and presented theories, models and frameworks to real world contexts and resolution of problems
• Analyse and evaluate core theoretical concepts; health policy; legal; social; and ethical issues in the context of child welfare and protection
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Personal / Professional Development:
Successful completion of this module will enable the student to
• Be familiar with and comfortable working in an online learning environment
• Use online learning resources to further learning opportunities
Have the ability to critically reflect and evaluate their individual professional practice and knowledge base in order to recognise their need for continuous professional development and lifelong learning.
Upon completion of the module students will be able to evaluate complex multifaceted issues and judgements whilst reflecting upon the wider professional issues, social and ethical responsibilities of their role as a professional within this area
The module will cover the structure of the courts within the Republic of Ireland . The workings of those courts and their jurisdiction.
Court skills will be highlighted with students being given the opportunity to practice these skills within the setting of a moot courtroom.
Students will study how to write a court report and have the opportunity to give evidence within a moot court.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 5 |
Tutorial | 2 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 60 |
Placement/Work Experience | 100 |
Online Learning | 5 |
Total | 172 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Practical Examination: write and present a court report | Week 12 | n/a | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | Yes | 100 |
Seminar: participation in on line tutorials | Varies over the Trimester | n/a | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 0 |
Remediation Type | Remediation Timing |
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In-Module Resit | Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Students will be given feedback on their participation in online discussions, at the end of the discussions. Regarding the presentation of their witness statement in the moot court, students will receive verbal group feedback from the module leader and solicitors who participated in the court session immediately following the session. This will be followed by individual typed feedback.
Name | Role |
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Professor Jim Campbell | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Assoc Professor Amanda Phelan | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Seán Ó Domhnaill | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Martin Heduan | Tutor |
Mrs Allison Kacperski | Tutor |
Ms Sue Meehan | Tutor |
Mr Adam Tattersall | Tutor |