A candidate must successfully complete units totalling 40 credit points (cp) as detailed below. All units are valued at 10 credit points unless otherwise indicated.
| Unit type | Credit Points | Specific requirements |
Core Units
(1 units) | 10cp | Compulsory Core units totalling 10 credit points as per the list of units detailed below:
SWK551 Engaging Vulnerable Families
|
Specialist Electives
(3 units) | 30cp | Specialist Elective units totalling 30 credit points selected from the list of available units detailed below:
SWK559 Understanding and Responding to Domestic and Family Violence (replaces SWK552 from 2026)
SWK556 Trauma Informed Practice
SWK558 Cultural Security in Child Protection Practice The following units are no longer offered:
SWK553 Collaborative Child Protection Practice (no longer offered)
SWK554 Child Safe Community Project (no longer offered)
SWK555 Responding to Child Sexual Abuse (no longer offered)
SWK557 Complex Case Management (no longer offered) |
| | 40cp | Total Credit Points |
Course Rules (unless otherwise indicated in the above course structure)
COURSE CHANGES AND TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS - 2026
SWK552 Investigative Interviewing has been replaced by SWK559 Preventing and Responding to Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence from 2026.
