Course aims:
• Explore the challenges and opportunities of working with children and families
from a range of different cultural, religious, ethnic and economic backgrounds
• Explore different cultural and religious belief systems and child care practices
within different groups, the impact of these on parenting and the protective
factors that may be associated with these
• Recognise the impact of discrimination on children and families from particular
cultural and economic groups
• Consider personal attitudes and beliefs and how these may impact on
interventions with families whose backgrounds are different to your own and
multi-agency working
• Developed skills in distinguishing between cultural practices that are not
harmful to children and those that are
• Developed a basic awareness of a range of practices that are specific to certain
communities which may be harmful to children including: corporal punishment,
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