Hate Crime Awareness

Target Group:

This course is targeted to adults and children health and social care staff in a wide range of setting which includes foster carers, family support workers, children home staff, and those in residential care, nursing care, home care and supported living settings, personal assistants and other frontline practitioners and volunteers who have regular contact with service users/patients and their families or carers in the London Borough of Sutton.

Staff Groups B, C, D, and E as per the Bournemouth University National Mental Capacity Act Competency Framework. 

Level 3 staff and above (ref: NHS Intercollegiate document 2018 - Adult Safeguarding: Roles and Competencies For Healthcare Staff): Registered health care staff who engage in assessing, planning, intervening and evaluating the needs of adults where there are safeguarding concerns (as appropriate to role).  

Course Overview:

This training session aims at giving participants the ability to recognise Hate Crime and the confidence to report Incidents through the correct channels.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this course participants will have gained:

• Increased knowledge of what is a Hate Crime/Incident
• Increased understanding of online Hate Crime
• A greater understanding of what to do if you are a victim of Hate Crime
• Knowledge and confidence on how to report a hate Crime/Incident
• Understanding on why Hate Crimes impact victims and communities
• Skills and confidence on how to be an upstander against Hate
• Understanding of the difference between Free Speech and Hate Speech
• Knowledge about Current position locally/nationally including impact of Brexit
• Better understanding of links with PREVENT and Safeguarding
• Increased knowledge about Services available in Sutton
• Knowledge and confidence on how to make use of Stop Hate UK