Social workers are key to supporting individuals and communities, from child protection to mental health. Our degree equips you with the practical skills, knowledge, and resilience to become a confident, effective, and compassionate social worker. You'll learn everything from social work theories to professional skills, ensuring you're ready to help adults and children in various settings.
By the end of the course, you’ll be eligible to register with Social Work England and start your career in a field that makes a real impact.
Industry informed teaching: Learn from experienced staff with real-world social work practice, teaching, and research expertise, ensuring your learning experience is high-quality and up-to-date with contemporary issues, advancements and debates within the sector.
Gain real-world insight: Get direct input from people with lived experience, including co-taught lectures and assessments.
Flexible career paths: Gain the flexibility to work with both adults and children, opening doors to diverse career opportunities.
Boost your employability: Complete two assessed practical placements in a variety of settings, statutory, voluntary, and charitable, with children, young people, and adults allowing you to apply theory to real-world situations.
Build key skills: Build valuable transferable skills through interprofessional learning alongside students from nursing, criminal justice, teaching, and more.
Focused learning: Modules are delivered through our block teaching approach, so you can concentrate on one subject at a time.
FIRST YEAR:
Preparation for Social Work Practice
Introduction to Law, Policy and Procedure
Understanding the Life Span (Human growth and development)
Introduction to Social Work Theories and Skills in practice
SECOND YEAR:
Practice Placement (70 days)
Law for Social Work Practice
Research informed practice
Social Work Theories, Processes and Skills in Practice
Inter-Professional Education (IPE)
THIRD YEAR:
Research Project
The Developing Professional Practitioner
Professional Judgement and Decision Making
Final Practice Placement (100 days)
To ensure students are ready to practice, they are assessed in their first year through a communication exercise with a service user or carer and a shadowing exercise where they will shadow a social worker in their practice with service users and reflect on this experience. In addition, you will be required to pass both the second and third year placements
Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.
This course is available in Clearing. If you have submitted an application, you can add this course. If you haven’t sent us an application yet, you can do this until 24th September 2026.
This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.
De Montfort University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
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The following entry points are available for this course:
Work experience
Although not essential, some relevant social care experience – paid or voluntary, is desirable and can strengthen your application with us. Work experience will form part of the scoring criteria used at your interview.
Please tell us in your personal statement, and at interview details of the length of time spent gaining relevant social care experience and the type of social care experience you have. You should also clearly demonstrate your motivations and suitability to study and train as a social work practitioner, and how your experience relates to the role.
Find out more about qualification requirements for this course.
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Please note, this fee is subject to parliamentary procedure and will also be subject to a compounded annual inflationary increase. It is expected to be confirmed in early 2026 and may change in future years of study.
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