Management Training

Equality, Diversity and Human Rights (EDHR): The Golden Thread

What the course covers:

  • Understand how services that have the improvement of equality and the recognition of human rights at their core can provide better services for the public
  • Understand how improving the rights of people is a mainstream part of the delivery of health and social care
  • Explore how we can put equality and human rights at the heart of improvement work so that the quality of care gets better for everyone
  • The Equality Act 2010, CQC Equally outstanding: Equality and human rights – good practice resource, November 2018
  • Requirements of CQC
  • The Human Rights Act 1998
  • Social capital
  • Links to external groups (e.g. Carers’ Groups/LGBT+ Groups)
  • Person-centred care and equality
  • Accessible information and communication
  • Equality and the well-led provider
  • Equal access to pathways of care
  • Removing barriers at a service level
  • The business case
  • Practice examples

How this course can be completed:

  • Classroom: this course can be completed as a half-day course in a classroom environment, which lasts approximately 3 learning hours.
  • Webinar: this course can be completed as a webinar that lasts approximately 3 learning hours.