Working with Children and Families

Welcome to your course

Welcome to the University of Cumbria and Working with Children & Families. You have chosen an exciting course that allows you a broader scope of careers in the future. You can shape your degree to through our two pathways to suite and develop your personal interests and strengths. This course can lead to careers which will enable you to work with a wide variety of people in a range of different contexts or additional postgraduate study. The programme has been designed to be flexible but to enhance your existing platforms of knowledge to enable you to develop as an informed and empowered professional. We aim to provide a stimulating but supportive learning environment where students can flourish and ultimately become competent, confident, creative, capable and reflective practitioners.

Welcome week provides an excellent opportunity to meet the staff team and other fellow students. You will also be given the opportunity to familiarise yourself with the Campus facilities, the aims and expectations of the course and other additional opportunities available on our campus’.

Registration Information

The timetables are listed below. We have made the week both informative and rewarding as alongside sessions to help you learn about the University’s systems we also run a project which will help everyone you to get to know each other and feel comfortable before the teaching begins.