About this Course

This Practice Diploma will be awarded to students who successfully complete both of the subjects (modules). The course deals with the practical and legal details of community care in the UK.

The course is suitable for people already working in community and social care, housing organisations, or those intending to work as community care workers, homelessness officers, housing officers, social welfare officers, resettlement officers, child carers, those working with the elderly and people with disabilities, officers in public or private homes or officers in other related areas.

This course may also be used as an access to courses in nursing, social work, probation service and social policy.

Module 1

• Poverty & the philosophy of Housing Management
• Community Care Act & the Philosophy of Care
• Care for the elderly
• Disability: An introduction
• Those with Physical Disabilities
• Those with Learning Difficulties
• Those with Mental Illness
• Child care, Abuse & Protection
• Domestic Violence & Abuse
• Depression and Suicide
• HIV and AIDS
• HIV and Tuberculosis
• Terminal illness & Bereavement
• Causes, Consequences & Prevention of Homelessness
• The Homeless Mentally Ill
• Marriage and Divorce
• Crime and Society
• Drug and Alcohol Abuse Ethnic Minorities and Care
• Law of Care and Protection of Animals
• Resurgence of the Slave Trade
• Customer Care and Quality

Module 2

• English Legal System
• Civil and Criminal Liability
• Contract Law
• Agency Law
• Company Law
• Negligence
• Nuisance
• Trespass
• Occupier’s Liability & Defective Premises
• Employer’s Liability for Health & Safety
• Law Relating to Standard of Care
• Right to Self-Determination & Consent to Treatment
• Legal Aspects of Mental Illness
• Law Relating to Homelessness
• Law of Child Protection
• Assisted Suicide & Mercy Killing
• Adoption and Foster Care
• Abortion
• Sentencing & Rehabilitation of Offenders
• Harassment and Unlawful Eviction
• Immigration Law Relating to Refugees & Asylum seekers
• Immigration Rules and Public Funds
• Discrimination and Equal Opportunities
• Data Protection & Confidentiality
• Freedom of Information
• Access to and Disclosure of Medical Records
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• European Convention on Human Rights

Module 3

• Research Project

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