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Understanding and Solving Poverty and Inequality
Learn of the ways in which we can tackle social injustice. Join this Understanding and Solving Poverty and Inequality programme from

Management For An Integrative Health And Social Care Workforce
This module acknowledges the needs of those in current or developmental managerial roles in health and social care arenas or organisations (including the voluntary or independent sector) who wish to develop new management skills to enhance future Integrative Health and Social Care. University of Derby offers the Management For An Integrative Health And Social Care Workforce programme.

Pre-Community Services
Do you enjoy helping people and have an interest in a community service career, but haven’t decided on a specialty? Niagara College Canada offers the Pre-Community Services programme.
Principles of Respiratory and Thoracic Care
Enhance your understanding and knowledge of how to care for a patient spanning both the acute and chronic respiratory spectrum with this Principles of Respiratory and Thoracic Care course. Anglia Ruskin University is the only university in the country to offer a course specific to respiratory and thoracic care.
End-of-Life Care for People with Dementia
Understand the needs of people with dementia, and how to better support them and enhance their wellbeing towards the end of life with this End-of-Life Care for People with Dementia programme delivered through FutureLearn in partnership with the University of East Anglia!
Family Mediation
The Family Mediation course at York University will help you gain the skills and experience to confidently mediate family conflict.
Motivational Interviewing Workshop
Explore the basics of in Motivational Interviewing Workshop offered at Middlesex University in our fascinating two-day course designed for a wide range of health and social care professionals who experience client contact in any capacity.
Return to Social Work
This Return to Social Work course offered by The University of Lancashire is for people who have a social work qualification, but haven't worked in the role for a while. It helps you re-engage with social work knowledge, law and contemporary practice.
Social Work
The Social Work programme from Cerca Abroad offers valuable exposure to the realities of social work in an international context, preparing students and graduates for careers in the field.
Children's Commissioning and Purchasing
This Children's Commissioning and Purchasing course at Oxford Brookes University aims to equip participants with the essential skills and knowledge to implement the national commissioning agenda and develop best practices in commissioning value-for-money services for children and young people.
Community Empowerment and Advocacy
This Community Empowerment and Advocacy module at Oxford Brookes University teaches approaches, theories and tools effective for promoting healthy behaviour within communities.
Psychosocial Care of Children, Adolescents and their Families
This Psychosocial Care of Children, Adolescents and their Families module at Oxford Brookes University opens with a focus on developing psychosocial assessment skills from a sound theoretical basis.
Adults' Care Purchasing and Brokerage
The Institute of Public Care (IPC) at Oxford Brookes University, in collaboration with the Commissioning Alliance, proudly presents a specialised short course in Adults' Care Purchasing and Brokerage designed for social care professionals involved in adult care placement, brokerage, or purchasing roles.
Reflective Supervision for Health and Social Care
This Reflective Supervision for Health and Social Care short course at the University of Bedfordshire is designed to advance your knowledge and skills in reflective supervision.
Reporting Elder Abuse in the Community Setting
This Reporting Elder Abuse in the Community Setting course offered by CQUniversity Australia was developed for all health professionals and members of the public to assist them with guiding through reporting options of elder abuse.
Managing Practice Learning for Social Work Students
This Managing Practice Learning for Social Work Students online course at the UWE Bristol (University of the West of England) aims to prepare practice supervisors to work with UWE Bristol's BSc(Hons) Social Work students undertaking both the 70 and 100 day placements.
Managing a Remote Workforce
Combine technology training for employees with industry experts with this Managing a Remote Workforce course offered at Udacity.
Practice Educator Stage One (Social Work)
Practice Educator Stage One (Social Work) at Canterbury Christ Church University is a six-day professional development course for qualified and experienced social workers who facilitate the learning and assessment of social work students and other relevant learners.
Specialist Safeguarding
This Specialist Safeguarding module at the University of Salford will enable the learner to demonstrate an advanced knowledge of safeguarding issues across the life course.
Safeguarding in Out-of-School Settings
This Safeguarding in Out-of-School Settings course at Cambridge Regional College is aimed at anyone who works within an out-of-school settings, especially those working directly with children and young people.