JSB338 Action and Advocacy for Child Protection
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| Unit code: | JSB338 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | 96cp of completed study |
| Credit points: | 12 |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,456 |
| International unit fee | $4,932 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2026, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | JSB338 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 96cp of completed study |
| Coordinator: | Jodi Death | jodi.death@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit equips you with essential skills for child protection advocacy and awareness. Understanding child protection practice is crucial for justice professionals in violence prevention and criminology. It enables you to identify harm and intervene in cases of maltreatment, ensuring the safety and well-being of children. Knowledge of child protection systems, and trauma-informed and culturally competent practices enhances your ability to support vulnerable families and contribute to a safer society. You will practice interviewing parents, conducting risk assessments, and creating case plans. This unit provides the foundation needed to make a meaningful impact in these fields.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Facilitate discussions and resolve conflict during child protection practice.
- Collect and analyse evidence to inform decision-making on interventions.
- Assess risks, needs and safety in the context of child protection.
- Create professional documents to communicate risk assessments and case planning.
- Apply culturally safe, trauma-informed and inclusive approaches to child protection work with diverse communities and vulnerable families.
Content
This unit will cover the following:
- Key stages of child development
- Sociological, psychological and criminological theories that help explain maltreatment
- State systems of child protection and legislative frameworks
- Best practice models for child protection practice
- Interview techniques and conflict resolution
- Trauma-informed practice
- Assessing risk
- Creating case plans
- Working with diverse communities and vulnerable families
- Innovative solutions to complex problems
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn by engaging in the following:
- lectures - live and recorded
- workshops - face-to-face and online
- peer and group discussions
- readings, media and video resources.
The unit adopts an interactive and case-based learning approach in which you are encouraged to analyse cases, debate and discuss responses to issues in child protection, reflect on personal values and explore constraints within the child protection system.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- a range of formative exercises discussed and undertaken throughout the unit
- feedback from peers as you investigate and discuss issues raised throughout the unit
- comments about summative assessment work included with your grade
- general summative assessment feedback posted to the whole cohort via the unit Canvas site.
Assessment
Overview
In this unit there are two assessments:
1. Risk Assessment and Interview - This task draws on the dynamics of child protection work to conduct a risk assessment on a suspected case of child abuse and/or neglect.
2. Case Plan - This task builds on the first assessment, where you are required to develop a case plan for the family you previously assessed.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Risk Assessment and Interview
You will take on the role of a child protection worker to assess an allegation of suspected child abuse or neglect.
Part A: As part of the assessment you will role play interviewing a parent. This will be done at a scheduled time with a member of the teaching team.
Part B: Following the interview you will need to complete and submit a risk assessment on the family to inform decision making on the type of intervention required or not.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is allowed to help you study and find out more about the topic; noting AI-generated content may not be accurate, reliable, or may display bias. Any content generated may not be copied and included in your final submission.
Part B of this assessment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Case Plan
In your role as a child protection worker, you will write a case plan for the family you assessed in Assessment Task 1.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is allowed to help you study and find out more about the topic; noting AI-generated content may not be accurate, reliable, or may display bias. Any content generated may not be copied and included in your final submission.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There are no resources that are required to be purchased for this unit. Resources will be available in the unit's Canvas site.
Risk Assessment Statement
Students are advised that some content in justice units may be confronting. If you are concerned that the content of a unit may impact your completion of the course, please see the unit coordinator. You can also access free student counselling through QUT Counselling via the QUT Student Homepage.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.JS34 Bachelor of Justice
- Apply social and criminal justice principles to explain justice issues and contexts.
Relates to: ULO3, Risk Assessment and Interview, Case Plan - Collect and analyse evidence to inform decisions and recommendations in justice systems.
Relates to: ULO2, Risk Assessment and Interview, Case Plan - Apply culturally safe and inclusive approaches to work with diverse communities and people as a Justice professional.
Relates to: ULO5, Risk Assessment and Interview, Case Plan - Communicate justice and social issues in respectful, professional and ethical ways with other professionals and stakeholders.
Relates to: ULO4, Risk Assessment and Interview, Case Plan - Facilitate discussions and collaborate with stakeholders in the justice sector.
Relates to: ULO1, Risk Assessment and Interview
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2026, Online
| Unit code: | JSB338 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | 96cp of completed study |
Overview
This unit equips you with essential skills for child protection advocacy and awareness. Understanding child protection practice is crucial for justice professionals in violence prevention and criminology. It enables you to identify harm and intervene in cases of maltreatment, ensuring the safety and well-being of children. Knowledge of child protection systems, and trauma-informed and culturally competent practices enhances your ability to support vulnerable families and contribute to a safer society. You will practice interviewing parents, conducting risk assessments, and creating case plans. This unit provides the foundation needed to make a meaningful impact in these fields.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Facilitate discussions and resolve conflict during child protection practice.
- Collect and analyse evidence to inform decision-making on interventions.
- Assess risks, needs and safety in the context of child protection.
- Create professional documents to communicate risk assessments and case planning.
- Apply culturally safe, trauma-informed and inclusive approaches to child protection work with diverse communities and vulnerable families.
Content
This unit will cover the following:
- Key stages of child development
- Sociological, psychological and criminological theories that help explain maltreatment
- State systems of child protection and legislative frameworks
- Best practice models for child protection practice
- Interview techniques and conflict resolution
- Trauma-informed practice
- Assessing risk
- Creating case plans
- Working with diverse communities and vulnerable families
- Innovative solutions to complex problems
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn by engaging in the following:
- lectures - live and recorded
- workshops - face-to-face and online
- peer and group discussions
- readings, media and video resources.
The unit adopts an interactive and case-based learning approach in which you are encouraged to analyse cases, debate and discuss responses to issues in child protection, reflect on personal values and explore constraints within the child protection system.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- a range of formative exercises discussed and undertaken throughout the unit
- feedback from peers as you investigate and discuss issues raised throughout the unit
- comments about summative assessment work included with your grade
- general summative assessment feedback posted to the whole cohort via the unit Canvas site.
Assessment
Overview
In this unit there are two assessments:
1. Risk Assessment and Interview - This task draws on the dynamics of child protection work to conduct a risk assessment on a suspected case of child abuse and/or neglect.
2. Case Plan - This task builds on the first assessment, where you are required to develop a case plan for the family you previously assessed.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Risk Assessment and Interview
You will take on the role of a child protection worker to assess an allegation of suspected child abuse or neglect.
Part A: As part of the assessment you will role play interviewing a parent. This will be done at a scheduled time with a member of the teaching team.
Part B: Following the interview you will need to complete and submit a risk assessment on the family to inform decision making on the type of intervention required or not.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is allowed to help you study and find out more about the topic; noting AI-generated content may not be accurate, reliable, or may display bias. Any content generated may not be copied and included in your final submission.
Part B of this assessment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Case Plan
In your role as a child protection worker, you will write a case plan for the family you assessed in Assessment Task 1.
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools is allowed to help you study and find out more about the topic; noting AI-generated content may not be accurate, reliable, or may display bias. Any content generated may not be copied and included in your final submission.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There are no resources that are required to be purchased for this unit. Resources will be available in the unit's Canvas site.
Risk Assessment Statement
Students are advised that some content in justice units may be confronting. If you are concerned that the content of a unit may impact your completion of the course, please see the unit coordinator. You can also access free student counselling through QUT Counselling via the QUT Student Homepage.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.JS34 Bachelor of Justice
- Apply social and criminal justice principles to explain justice issues and contexts.
Relates to: ULO3, Risk Assessment and Interview, Case Plan - Collect and analyse evidence to inform decisions and recommendations in justice systems.
Relates to: ULO2, Risk Assessment and Interview, Case Plan - Apply culturally safe and inclusive approaches to work with diverse communities and people as a Justice professional.
Relates to: ULO5, Risk Assessment and Interview, Case Plan - Communicate justice and social issues in respectful, professional and ethical ways with other professionals and stakeholders.
Relates to: ULO4, Risk Assessment and Interview, Case Plan - Facilitate discussions and collaborate with stakeholders in the justice sector.
Relates to: ULO1, Risk Assessment and Interview