Equality and Diversity - for Health and Social Care
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Equality and Diversity - for Health and Social Care

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Updated Sep 17, 2025

What you'll learn

  • Understand the differences between equality, diversity, inclusion and discrimination
  • Be aware of how your own prejudices might influence the way you work
  • Challenge discrimination
  • Know what legislation related to discrimination
Course Description

Course Overview

Staff may work with people who have a wide range of backgrounds and preferences. This course will help them to understand and better support individuals from any ethnic group, of any age, and with any disability, gender, sexual preference or any other protected characteristic.

However, if you’re seeking a more general equality and diversity training course, take a look at our generic Equality and Diversity course as an alternative.

This is part of our Care Certificate suite of courses. 

 

Target Audience

•    Those working in healthcare with direct patient contact
•    Those working in adult social care as a care worker in residential, domiciliary, or day care settings
•    Roles include nursing support workers, residential and domiciliary care staff, occupational therapist assistants, and physiotherapy assistants, etc.  

 

Course Duration

35 minutes