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Legislation, Policy and Best Practice

BHW704

  • Level 7
  • 20 Credits
  • 0.1667 EFTS
  • Course duration: 16 weeks
  • Workload - Approximately 13 hours per week
  • Prerequisites
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This online health and wellbeing course examines legislation and policy that affects the lives of disabled people and those who work with them. It will enable you to recognise the frameworks within which you work and will focus on current good practice for effectively working with disabled people.

For more information watch the course introduction video below.

Learners who successfully complete this course will be able to

  • Analyse key policy and legislation by describing how it affects disabled people.
  • Critically evaluate the impact of policy and legislation on service design and delivery.
  • Evaluate current good practice for service design and delivery and explain how this can be effectively implemented for differing ages, stages, cultures and genders.

 

100% online delivery

Assessment

100% internal assessment 

Textbooks

No textbooks are required for this course

Computer and internet requirements

This course is delivered online, so you will access the course and do your study online, which generally includes reading and doing activities, watching videos, downloading content, and writing and submitting assessments online.

For online learning you need:

  • Access to a laptop or desktop computer
  • Reliable broadband internet and a data plan

Find out more about online learning

If you are unsure if your current computer or internet access will allow you to study online please contact us.

How to apply

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