Anti-Discriminatory Practice

Course Aims:

Professionals occupy positions of power and influence in their role. Anti-discriminatory practice is an attempt to eradicate discrimination from our own practice and to uphold social justice principles.

Course Outcomes:

• How do our attitudes, beliefs, and experience impact practice?
• Service user experiences of exclusion, disempowerment, and discrimination
• The differences between Prejudice, Discrimination and Hate Crime
• Unconscious bias and assumptions
• Structural social work
• Explore forms of marginalisation and inequality - poverty/social exclusion
• Explore the Equality Act, Protected Characteristics, Public Service Duty and what this means in practice