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Making the Law Work for You: Self-directed Support, Human Rights and Equalities
This Open Badge is awarded to people who participate in all three days of MECOPP’s ‘Self-Directed Support – Making the Law Work for You: SDS, Human Rights and Equalities’.
course, share their learning with colleagues and reflect on how they will apply their learning in practice.
The course is led by recognised experts in the fields of community care, human rights and equalities legislation. Taking place over three consecutive days, teaching methods include presentations, case-studies, group discussions and exercises to ensure as participative an experience as possible.
This course has been developed as part of a three year capacity building project for the Third Sector funded jointly by the Baring Foundation and the Life Changes Trust. It is one of five work-streams under the umbrella of the 3 R’s Project. The aim of the project is to equip practitioners with the skills and knowledge to effectively scrutinise and challenge local authority decision making on the allocation of resources to individuals who have an assessed entitlement to Self-directed Support.
To earn this Open Badge you must:
- attend and participate in all three days of MECOPP’s ‘Self-Directed Support – Making the Law Work for You: SDS, Human Rights and Equalities’ course
- participate in the group discussions and exercises
- tell us about three things you learned from the course and why these are important to you and your practice (150 words minimum)
- discuss your learning with your manager/supervisor/colleagues and tell us what you agreed was important to the service and the people who use your service (100 words minimum)
- tell us about at least one thing you will do to make your colleagues aware of the key points from the course. (50 words minimum)
Submit your application
The SSSC Open Badge system relies on trust. We trust that the evidence you provide will be of your own work and based on your own skills and knowledge. By submitting an application you agree to the following statement: “In studying and completing the activities for this badge, I confirm that all the work provided as evidence will be my own.” The SSSC will revoke a badge if the evidence provided is discovered to have been the work of someone else.
Your evidence, name, and email address will be sent to the organisation who issue this badge