- Degree awarded
- Certification of course completion
- Duration
- 5 days taught plus placement and private study
- Number of places/applicants
- 40
- How to apply
Please complete the master’s application form to apply for this course. You will need to:
- Select option 4. Non-degree courses (including Pre-sessional English Language and Executive Education)
- Choose 2024/25 Academic Year (courses starting between August 2024 and July 2025)
- Click on Return to Social Work
If you have any questions please email pgtaught.socialwork@manchester.ac.uk
Closing date for applications: 4th April 2025
Course overview
- Gain the skills to return to social work if you're a previously registered social worker who hasn't been registered with Social Work England for 2-5 years or more.
- Apply to re-register with Social Work England and return to qualified practice upon course completion.
- Explore key updates in policies, legislation and research.
- Undertake a supervised placement to re-familiarise yourself with the workplace.
- Study on a course funded by the Department for Education (DfE)'s Regional Improvement Plan Pilot (North West), free for social workers returning to practice in Greater Manchester, Cheshire or Merseyside.
Course dates
- Day 1: 28 April 2025 - in person (Manchester)
- Day 2: 29 April 2025 - online
- Day 3: 30 April 2025 - online
- Day 4: 1 May 2025 - online
- Greater Manchester Placements start from 5 May
- Day 5 for Greater Manchester: 11 June - in person (Manchester)
- Cheshire and Merseyside Placements start from 5 May through to 11 July 2025
- Day 5 for Cheshire and Merseyside: 15 July 2025 – in person (Cheshire and Merseyside)
Applications close: 4 April 2025
Policy on additional costs
All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).
Contact details
- School/Faculty
- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
- Contact name
- Social Work Admissions
- Telephone
- +44 (0)161 306 7604
- pgtaught.socialwork@manchester.ac.uk
- School/Faculty overview
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Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
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