Frontline is a registered charity which delivers Approach Social Work to participants from 2024 Cohort onwards and the Frontline programme to participants in 2023 Cohort and prior Cohorts. Lancaster University and Frontline have entered into a partnership whereby Lancaster is the awarding body for the academic awards within Approach Social Work: Postgraduate Diploma in Social Work with an exit qualification of Postgraduate Certificate in Social Studies and MA in Advanced Relationship Based Social Work Practice with Children and Families, and the academic awards within the Frontline programme: the MSc in Advanced Relationship Based Social Work Practice with Children and Families, and two associated exit qualifications: the Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Social Work Practice; and the Postgraduate Certificate in Social Work.

Academic policies, regulations and procedures which apply to the academic awards within Approach Social Work and the Frontline programme as listed above are set out in the Frontline Regulation Variations to the Manual of Academic Regulations and Procedures (MARP).