Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in Health & Social Care

When working in a social care setting it is likely that you will be supporting and caring for people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures. It is important to ensure everyone within you care is treated equally and fairly, being given the same opportunities and treatments.

With this short course understand the importance of equality and inclusion, how to work in an inclusive way and where and how to access information support and advise about diversity, equality, and inclusion.

This 30-minute course can be used as an introduction or as refresher training to ensure that all learners have up to date knowledge of Equality and Diversity in health and social care.

Learning Outcomes for this course include:

• Explain the importance of equality and inclusion
• Be able to work in an inclusive way
• Access information, advice and support about diversity, equality, and inclusion

Accreditation

The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

Certification

At the beginning of each module learners will be asked to answer a “knowledge check” question. Answering the question correctly will allow learners the opportunity to skip this section. However, if they wish to complete it anyway, they are still able to.

On completion of this course, learners will be able to print a Virtual College certificate. Learners must complete the course to obtain their certificate.

Duration

30 study minutes to complete. The length of time taken depends entirely on how quickly learners can study and absorb the material.

Target Audience

This training is designed for care workers and support workers wanting to get a good understanding of what is required of them within their role as well as for anyone working in a Social Care setting wanting annual refresher training.

Entry Requirements

There are no specific entry requirements for this course.

Frameworks

Our Equality and Diversity in Social Care online training course is mapped to the Skills for Health Core Skills Training Framework and Skills for Care Core and Mandatory Training Framework. 

Here we explain each framework and their importance. 

Skills for Health Core Skills Training Framework:

The Core Skills Training Framework sets out minimum learning outcomes, frequency of refresher training and is linked to relevant legislation or expert guidance.

It can be used by any healthcare employer in the UK including NHS, independent and voluntary providers.

We have mapped our eLearning courses to the learning objectives within the Core Skills Training Framework, to give organisations the confidence that they can use the eLearning as a foundation for their wider training programmes.

Skills for Care Core and Mandatory Training Framework:

The Core and Mandatory Training framework was produced by skills for care in partnership with a panel of social care employers, learning providers and representative organisations and was updated in line with CQC’s revised inspection framework.

It sets out a series of minimum learning objectives and a suggested refresher frequency, to support care organisations to provide their staff with a foundation of learning and refresher opportunities.