MSWPG7203 Law and Ethics in Social Work Practice
This course focuses on the tensions between law, ethics and social work values and how they shape social work practice. Students will be exposed to the philosophical tensions and ambiguities between rights and responsibilities, freedom and control and the individual and society. These will be explored within the context of social work values, justice, human rights and `duty of care¿. The primary focus is to interrogate how tensions between social work values and statutory contexts impact in a range of fields of practice, e.g., for family violence, child protection, young people in the justice system, mental health, migrant/refugees. Students will be exposed to different types of ethical conflicts that span the ethical and legal and/or statutory contexts and learn strategies for how to recognise, analyse and develop solutions. Assessments include issue-based debates and case study analysis which involves developing a practice framework for resolving complex ethical, legal issues to real world scenarios in social work practice.
Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) unit fee
A Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) is one that is subsidised by the Australian Government, which means students only pay the student contribution amount of the tuition fee. CSPs are only available to eligible domestic students.
The student contribution amount depends on the unit and how much funding the Government provides. Each unit is classified into a band based on its discipline (which may be different to your overall course discipline).
2025 student contribution amount: $2,124
2025 grandfathered student contribution amount (for students who commenced before 1 Jan 2021*): $997
* If you are a continuing student (who commenced your course before 1 January 2021) you will continue paying the same amount as you would have, had legislative reforms not been implemented for any units that would otherwise have an increased student contribution amount.