Human rights and equalities training to ensure the basic rights of people accessing health and social care are respected The British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) is excited to be delivering the new human rights and equalities training programme for Care Quality Commission staff, taking place over the next year. Public authorities, including regulators and inspectorates have legal duties to comply with the Human Rights Act, and the CQC has recently launched a human rights approach to the regulation of services. To put this into practice, it is vital CQC staff are empowered to see how applying human rights and equalities is part of their day-to-day work. The innovative new learning programme, developed and delivered by BIHR, will focus on the potential of human rights and equalities to transform the way services are planned and delivered, regulated and held to account. This new programme is the result of a partnership between the CQC and the Equality and Human Rights Commission, ...

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