Values and Ethics for Social Work Apprentices

Module code: SOW4017-B

This module will introduce you to social work values and ethics, and to enable you to examine patterns of inequality, discrimination, and oppression. The module also aims to enable you to develop the skills of building and maintaining trust and confidence with others (including people that use services and other professional colleagues) by communicating in an open, accurate, and understandable way and to take responsibility for your own behaviour, actions, and personal development. These skills will be developed with your apprentice peers during this module and then further explored and consolidated with people that use services and professional colleagues during your on-the-job work-based training with the employer. You will also explore how the Apprenticeship Standards (Knowledge, Skills, & Behaviours) relate to the British Association for Social Work Code of Ethics. The module will contribute to the development of the apprenticeship standards and professional body standards as can be seen by the linking of the module learning outcomes below to the relevant apprenticeship, BASW and SWE standards. Download the PDF for SOW4017-B_2023_4.pdf