WHOLE GROUP SESSIONS - these will be used to disseminate general information, and to introduce new topics (including topics which will be developed further in small-group/workshop sessions) 11 x 1 Hour p.w. = 11 Hours

SMALL GROUP SESSIONS - these will be used for developing specific topics and themes following their general introduction in the Whole Group sessions. A variety of teaching and learning activities will be engaged in, and the programme of small group work will entail active learning and skills development on the part of participants, including preparatory work prior to sessions as well as after the sessions (when it will be necessary to reflect on the work done at the sessions, and follow it up with further study). The sessions will include exercises in which participants discuss scenarios in which "clients" require advice and/or representation. The sessions will also include role play, in the course of which the client may require advice and representation at appeals: this aspect will require a combination of skills, for example research, counselling and communication and advice on "better off/worse off" welfare options. Guidance on tasks will be in the Study Guide, and as provided during the programme 11 x 1 Hour p.w. = 11 Hours

DIRECTED STUDY & PREPARATORY WORK - in preparation for the tasks undertaken in Small Group Sessions, participants are given guidance in the Study Guide on preliminary research and other preparatory work and reading. This will include, for example, reports on relevant law cases, articles from law and advice work journals, and other legal and social policy sources, web-based information, CD-ROMS, or advice work information/systems in software packages. Guidance on preparatory work will also, before some of the sessions, be in specific pre-session guidance provided by the Module leader. Feedback after small group sessions may contain suggested reading/study tasks 128 Hours

Total Learning Hours - 150

Access to appropriate texts, legislation and case law.
Module Study Guides
Computing facilities will be needed to access material available on the web and specialist on-line databases.

Puttick, K. (2003). Welfare Benefits: Law and Practice, 8th Edition. EMIS Professional Publishing, Welwyn Garden City.
Clements, L. (2004). Community Care & the Law, 3rd Edition. Legal Action Group, London.
Other publications, journals, etc, as advised in the Study Guide

Open book examination under controlled conditions. (100%) (Learning Outcomes 1 - 5)
A time of 2 hours and 15 minutes is allowed.

In this Module we consider citizens' rights to "welfare" within the Social Welfare Law system. Content includes an analysis of "welfare" in its various forms, including the regulated social market and Community Care. We also consider
- welfare rights and responsibilities in the context of advice work
- welfare support aspects of Family Law (on separation and divorce, and in relation to financial provision, court-based remedies and CSA Child Support)
- employment (particularly low pay, in-work support, and financial provision after termination of employment)
- housing , including homelessness and social housing
- personal injury (in relation to accidents, disability, etc)
- Criminal Law aspects (focusing on welfare-related offences and fraud)
- immigration and asylum (and financial support)
- the elderly, including services and residential/nursing care
- Public Law aspects, including peoples' rights of appeal and judicial review.