Legal Literacy & Defensible Decision-Making
Venue
Webinar: Microsoft Teams, Teams
Event Tutors
Learning and Development
Admin Contact
Learning and Development (HRlearninganddevelopment@southglos.gov.uk)
Target Audience
CAH Staff
Event Types
Course (daytime)
Course categories
Adult Social Care
Adult Social Care subcategories
General Adult Social Care
Event description
By booking onto this course, you are consenting to your contact details being passed onto the trainer. This is so they can send the invitation, and any further resources, to you.
Please join the meeting prior to the 9.30 start, so you have time to check that the technology is working.
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
Please join the meeting prior to the 9.30 start, so you have time to check that the technology is working.
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
· Outline the key legislation for Adult Social Care
· Explain key legal requirements in relation to decision-making in adult social care
· Describe the key components of a defensible decision
· Identify different types of relevant information/evidence
· Outline the importance of accessing and considering the relevant information/evidence to inform your professional analysis/opinion
· 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
· Describe how and why case records should accurately record professional analysis and decisions, based on the evidence considered
· Define legal literacy and describe its importance in practice
· Outline the key legislation for Adult Social Care
· Explain key legal requirements in relation to decision-making in adult social care
· Describe the key components of a defensible decision
· Identify different types of relevant information/evidence
· Outline the importance of accessing and considering the relevant information/evidence to inform your professional analysis/opinion
· 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
· Describe how and why case records should accurately record professional analysis and decisions, based on the evidence considered
Start Date
Thursday 16 May 2024
End Date
Thursday 16 May 2024
Closing Date
Wednesday 15 May 2024
Times
09:30 - 16:30
Maximum Places
15
Cost
£103.50
Number of Sessions
1
Certificate expiry
No
Pass/Fail event
No