Race Awareness (AM) SGC - ASC & ICS staff only

Venue
Badminton Road G12, Badminton Road
venue
Event Tutors
Learning and Development
tutors
Admin Contact
Learning and Development (HRlearninganddevelopment@southglos.gov.uk)
Target Audience
Social Care Staff / Staff Working in ICS
target audience
Event Types
Course (daytime)
Course categories
Adult Social Care / Children and Young People / Equality and Diversity
Adult Social Care subcategories
General Adult Social Care
Children and Young People subcategories
Children's Social Care
Equality and Diversity subcategories
Equality and Diversity
Event description
  • Increase understanding around race, racism and systemic racism as well as how it manifests in relation to social care specifically
  • Exploring disparities from statistics that have been caused by systemic racism specific to social care and other core English institutions
  • Understanding our own unconscious bias and social conditioning to help us better challenge ourselves, our thoughts and our beliefs
  • A deep dive into white privilege, power & advantage
  • Cultural awareness and how being aware of cultural norms can help us be more culturally competent when supporting people
  • Learning what microaggression are and what we can do to mitigate against them and how to support somebody who has experienced a microaggression
  • Exploring Language the nuances and connotations associated with some outdated terms
  • How to be an anti-racism ally and what this means as an individual, team and organisation

Please see attached pre-coursework details which must be completed prior to the training session

We want to make sure everyone feels comfortable attending this session. We can offer a separate session for staff who may find the nature and content of this training session triggering.

If you would like to attend this separate session, please contact Joanne Worthington joanne.worthington@southglos.gov.uk.

All staff will be offered support where needed by the trainer and the organisation
Learning outcomes

  • Understanding of what racism is and how it can present & manifest in social care

  • Increased awareness of our own privileged, advantage & power and how we can utilise this

  • Understand how to reduce aspects of interpersonal racism from happening on the ground between people, particularly microaggressions

  • Increased understanding of what an anti-racism ally is and what actions you can take individually and within the organisation to support race equity

Start Date
Thursday 13 July 2023
End Date
Friday 13 October 2023
Closing Date
Wednesday 12 July 2023
Times
09:30 - 12:30
Maximum Places
16 
Cost
£0.00 
Number of Sessions
1
Certificate expiry
No
Pass/Fail event
No