Search for Learning and Development Services and Pathways

As part of our Research in Practice membership, we are entitled to a tailored support day. This year we have chosen to focus on Cultural Diversiy to enable us to reflect on our work with people from different cultural and social/class backgrounds and provide an opportunity to consider how to challenge inappropriate practice. 
Although RiP is predominantly for social work staff, this course is avaialable to staff across Families, Children and Learning.

The session will cover issues of race, identity, marginalization and discrimination. We will consider associated terminology, discuss strategies to challenge racism and explore the implications of potentially damaging attitudes, language and behaviours. 

We will use case studies and a short film and there will be opportunities for small and whole group discussions. You will be able to feed back on the key issues to consider and proposed action to be taken.

This course is suitable for fostering and adoption team staff and social workers, social work resource officers, community family workers and foster carers.

The course will provide those working with children in care the knowledge, skills and tools to enable them to recognise and support needs in relation to identity.

Brighton & Hove is comprised of a diverse community with a range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. It is crucial that practitioners are skilled and competent in engaging with families from different cultural backgrounds, to work in an anti-discriminatory way and ensure that issues of race and culture are integrated into assessment and decision-making.

This course is for anyone who may be coming into contact with, or needs to find our more about the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. The training includes representatives from the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.

The Traveller population in Brighton & Hove to date has been  mainly mobile and  existed  on the edge of residential communities.   It has often  been  difficult for professionals to engage with these close knit but hard to reach families and groups, and frequently difficult for a mobile population to access services. Brighton & Hove after years of negotiation with all stakeholders are  providing both a residential Traveller site and a refurbished short stay site, providing a total of 33 pitches.   This will provide better opportunities to ensure improved access to services and promote  good relations  with the local community

This course aims to share the good practice, developed over two decades. of successful ways of working and engaging with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.