Legal Literacy & Defensible Decision-Making

Venue
Webinar: Microsoft Teams, Teams
venue
Event Tutors
Learning and Development
tutors
Admin Contact
Target Audience
CAH Staff
target audience
Event Types
Course (daytime)
Course categories
Adult Social Care
Adult Social Care subcategories
General Adult Social Care
Event description
You will be sent a TEAMS invite nearer the time.  The facilitator will be Sarah Clay from Central Consultancy.

Please note: By booking onto this course, you are consenting to your contact details being passed onto the trainer. This is so they can send you further information if necessary.


This workshop is for South Gloucestershire Council Adult Care practitioners ONLY.

The session will explore the importance of legally literacy and defensible decision-making in effective practice. Included will be a focus on:

• defining and developing an understanding of what is meant by both terms, from both a theoretical perspective and from your experience/practice
• ways to continue to develop your knowledge of the legal framework and how to ensure that it underpins your practice
• professional accountability and the importance of accurate analysis, free from bias, to inform your professional opinions and defensible decisions
Learning outcomes
By the end of the session, you will be able to:
• Define legal literacy and describe its importance in practice
• Explain key legal requirements in relation to decision-making in adult social care
• Describe the key components of a defensible decision
• Explain the benefits of drawing on different types/sources of information and evidence
• Evaluate the impact of cognitive/unconscious bias in practice
• Distinguish between facts and opinions
• Identify key learning from relevant legal cases
• Reflect on and evaluate own decision-making processes
Start Date
Monday 4 October 2021
End Date
Monday 4 October 2021
Closing Date
Thursday 30 September 2021
Times
09:30 - 12:30
Maximum Places
15 
Cost
£40.00 
Number of Sessions
1
Certificate expiry
No
Pass/Fail event
No