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Communication and relationships
This Open Badge is available to anybody working in social services who has used our Communication and Relationships app. To obtain the badge, you need to provide some evidence of what you have learned and how you used the app.
This is badge is no longer available. It has been replaced by Foundations for practice: Communication and relationships.
Care and support take place through communication and the helping relationships that are developed with people. There are many aspects of a helping relationship but to build a good one requires lots and lots of communication, including listening, empathy (putting yourself in the other person’s shoes) and being genuine.
To earn this badge you will need to:
- work through the Communication and Relationships app
- tell us about how using the app helped develop your knowledge and understanding of the topic
- tell us how you have or intend to apply this knowledge in your day to day practice.
This is badge is no longer available. It has been replaced by Foundations for practice: Communication and relationships.
None. This badge does not require you to hold any other badges.
You will need to provide a two written statements, of about 100 words, on how using the app helped develop your learning and how you have or intend to put your learning into practice. You can provide your statements on the badge application form below or provide a link to your own blog/portfolio. Download our offline form if you’d like to prepare your evidence in Microsoft Word.
If you want to use a blog or ePortfolio entry as evidence, you might find our guide to preparing and publishing your evidence useful. We will also accept short audio or video statements if you prefer these formats.
Remember, the evidence you provide will be viewable by anyone who you show your badge to. Please don’t include confidential or private information within your statements.
Badge issuer
Scottish Social Services Council
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The SSSC Open Badge system relies on trust. We trust that the evidence you provide will be of your own work and based on your own skills and knowledge.
By submitting an application you agree to the following statement:
“In studying and completing the activities for this badge, I confirm that all the work provided as evidence will be my own.”
The SSSC will revoke a badge if the evidence provided is discovered to have been the work of someone else.
Your evidence, name, and email address will be sent to the organisation who issue this badge