Using intersectionality to increase equity in adult social care
Using intersectionality to increase equity in adult social care
Delivered online using Microsoft Teams.
12:00 - 14:00 Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Intersectionality is a tool for analysing how different forms of oppression interact and intersect to influence lived experiences.
This online event will introduce new resources, developed through a Change Project, that consider how to use intersectionality as a tool to explore the practices, attitudes and actions needed to overcome barriers, challenge oppression and increase equity.
Audience Types
Practitioners
Senior leaders
Strategic leads
Social workers
Team leaders
Workforce development teams
Principal Social Worker (PSW)
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - The role of social workers | Person-centred practice | Direct work with individuals and families | Supervision, critical analysis and reflection | Organisational context | Professional ethics and leadership | Effective assessments and outcome based support planning | Values and ethics | Influencing and governing practice excellence within the organisation and community | Developing confident and capable social workers | Assuring good social work practice and development | Promoting and supporting critical analysis and decision-making | Relationship-based practice supervision | Effective use of power and authority as a practice supervisor | Performance management and improvement
CQC - Safe | Effective | Caring | Responsive | Well-led
PCF - Values and ethics | Professionalism | Diversity and equality | Critical reflection and analysis | Contexts and organisations | Professional leadership | Knowledge | Rights, justice and economic wellbeing | Intervention and skills
RCOT - Understanding relationship | Service users | Develop intervention
Intersectionality and older people: Video learning resources
Video resources that highlight and share tasks and strategies to enable practitioners to apply intersectional approaches.
Racism, intersectionality, privilege, power, fragility and allyship
This podcast discusses key issues on promoting anti-racism in social work with Dez Holmes and Wayne Reid.
Using an intersectional approach to build relationships with older people in social care
Intersectionality is a tool for analysing how different protected characteristics such as age, race, gender, ability, sexual orientation and class can all interact and intersect to influence lived experiences. This year’s adults Partnership Conference will consider how both practice and policy to support older people can be designed using an intersectional lens.