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Self-leadership
This Open Badge is awarded to social services workers in Scotland who have worked through the corresponding Things in the SSSC 23 Things for Leadership programme and have been awarded the Open Badges for each.
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Leadership Thing 12 – Challenging oppressive practice
Scotland’s social services need effective leadership at all levels of the workforce and everyone has a leadership role to play. Self-leadership is about recognising your own leadership skills and abilities, and taking responsibility for using and developing these. Self-leadership also includes responding to and challenging discriminatory or oppressive practice. -
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Leadership Thing 13 – The impact I have on others
Scotland’s social services need effective leadership at all levels of the workforce and everyone has a leadership role to play. Self-leadership is about recognising your own leadership skills and abilities, and taking responsibility for using and developing these. -
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Leadership Thing 14 – Resilience and my self-leadership
Scotland’s social services need effective leadership at all levels of the workforce and everyone has a leadership role to play, whatever their role at work. Leadership begins with leading ourselves and the SSSC self-leadership capability includes being resilient. Resilience helps us to pursue our goals despite obstacles and setbacks.
This Open Badge is awarded to social services workers in Scotland who have worked through the following Things in the SSSC 23 Things for Leadership programme and have been awarded the Open Badges for each.
- Thing 12: Challenging oppressive practice.
- Thing 13: My impact on others.
- Thing 14: Resilience and self-leadership.
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Scottish Social Services Council

Our work means the people of Scotland can count on social work, social care and children and young people services being provided by a trusted, skilled, confident and valued workforce.
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