This course allows the student to study two subjects in equal proportions to gain a joint Honours degree; in childhood studies the student is given the opportunity to study different aspects of education such as the history and contemporary issues related to schools in Wales, the rest of the United Kingdom and Europe; social policy is about the study of welfare in its widest sense; it studies the variety of ways in which welfare can be provided, paid for and regulated, and compares the different approaches nation states take to the welfare of their citizens and others.