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ELC Thing 12 – Challenging discriminatory or oppressive practice
Scotland’s social services need effective leadership at all levels of the workforce and everyone has a leadership role to play. Self-leadership is about recognising your own leadership skills and abilities, and taking responsibility for using and developing these. Self-leadership also includes responding to and challenging discriminatory or oppressive practice.
This badge is awarded to people who have:
- worked through Thing 12: Responding to, and challenging, discriminatory or oppressive practice
- provided evidence of their learning through reflective writing.
This is part of the 23 Things ELC Leadership programme.
To earn this badge you must:
- work through Thing 12 of 23 Things ELC Leadership
- write at least 200 words to evidence how you have worked with someone who is different to you and how you responded to and challenged discriminatory or oppressive practice.
We will decline Open Badge applications without a completed reflective activity.
Before you submit applications and evidence for any of the 23 Things ELC Leadership Open Badges, it is recommended that you achieve these two Open Badges first:
Getting started with Open Badges
Writing evidence for Open Badge applications
You may also find it helpful to complete Things 1 – 4 before starting Thing 12.
Complete all of the activities as described in Thing 12 and write a statement (minimum 200 words) reflecting on the two examples from your practice you have been asked to think of and consider the questions:
- What did you do (specifically with your knowledge or skills)?
- How did this make a difference to the person/people experiencing support from your service?
Badge issuer
Scottish Social Services Council
Promoting high standards, raising public confidence and developing a trained and trusted social service workforce in Scotland.
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I confirm that I have read, understood and completed all the activities listed in the badge criteria and that each question from the criteria is answered in the evidence I have provided. My evidence has been written or recorded by me and I have not copied it from anywhere or anyone else. I understand that it will take 28 days for you to assess my application and that feedback cannot be provided if my application is unsuccessful.