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Making better decisions: Adult care – accepting gifts scenario
This Open Badge is awarded to people who work through the accepting gifts scenario on the adult care section of our Making better decisions resource and complete a reflective account to demonstrate their learning.
This Open Badge is awarded to people who work through the accepting gifts scenario on the adult care section of our Making better decisions resource and complete a reflective account to demonstrate their learning.
Every day we have to make decisions relating to our roles. Some of these are straightforward and easy to make, while others are more difficult and may involve a range of options. We are all accountable for the decisions that we make in our roles, so making a ‘wrong’ choice could mean that you have to justify why you made it, particularly if it leads to poorer outcomes for people who use your services. Our Making better decisions learning resource provides you with some challenging decisions, which enables you to see how your decisions might affect the outcomes of people if you had to make them in real life situations.
The scenario reflects real situations and dilemmas in which workers have made ‘wrong’ decisions that have led to investigations about their actions. It includes aspects that commonly arise in such cases.
You must not use any generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to plan, write or improve your evidence for this badge.
To earn this badge you must:
- work through the accepting gifts scenario on the adult care section of the resource
- complete the 400 word reflective activity at the end of the scenario
- paste your completed reflective activity into the application form for this badge.
Applications for this badge without a completed reflective activity will be declined.
None. You do not require any other badges before you can apply for this one.
You should complete the reflective activity at the end of the scenario, save a copy and attach it to the badge application form below or copy and paste the text into the application box. We suggest that to cover this in sufficient detail, you should write about 400 words. You might find it helpful to include how your choice relates to legislation and the SSSC Code of Practice for Social Service Workers.
Remember, anyone you show your badge to can see the evidence you provide. Please stick to the content of the scenario and don’t include confidential or private information from real world situations.
The SSSC Open Badge system relies on trust. We trust that the evidence you provide will be your own work and based on your own skills and knowledge. By submitting an application you declare the following: ‘In studying and completing the activities for this badge, I confirm that all the work provided as evidence is my own.’ The SSSC will revoke a badge if we discover the evidence provided is someone else’s work.
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Scottish Social Services Council
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1. I have read, understood and completed all activities listed in the badge criteria. The evidence I have provided answers each question from the criteria.
2. I confirm that the evidence I have submitted is free from personally identifiable information of others. Nobody can be identified, directly or indirectly, from any examples I provide.
3. I confirm that I have not used generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to plan or write any of the evidence I have provided. This is my own original work and I have not copied it from anywhere or anyone else. I understand that all AI assistance is banned under the rules for Open Badge applications.
4. I give consent for the SSSC and the people I share this badge with to use plagiarism and AI detection tools to validate the authenticity of the evidence I have submitted.
5. I understand that it may take up to 28 days to assess my application and that feedback cannot always be provided if it is unsuccessful.
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