Making and evidencing defensible decisions
Explore the characteristics of good decision-making so that experiences and outcomes are better for people who draw on social care.
Explore the characteristics of analytical and defensible decision-making in adult social care.
The workshop will support participants to be able to define and explain person-centred decision making in social care practice. Participants will consider the balance of intuitive and analytical approaches, using tools to support and record defensible decision-making.
Designed for
Social care practitioners working directly with adults.
Learning outcomes
As a result of attending this workshop participants will be able to:
- Recognise the issues with decision-making in the context of complexity, constraints and power and how to overcome these.
- Outline what justifiable decisions are, and the capabilities required to make them.
- Understand the importance of co-production in making decisions and the ethos and practicalities for how to do it.
- Develop your confidence in practice approaches to decision-making, using evidence, intersectionality, positive risk enablement and legal literacy.
- Examine how the continually evolving context we are working in affects decision-making, including technological developments and climate change.
- Understand what supports good decision-making in practice.
A brighter social care future: co-producing the evidence to make five key changes
This Evidence Review was co-produced by Research in Practice and Social Care Future, and brought together groups of people, with different lived experiences of social care, to talk about five key changes needed in social care in order to unlock an equal life.
The importance of legal literacy in adult social care: a legally literate decision-making model
Legal literacy involves connecting relevant legal rules with professional priorities and the objectives of ethical practice. In this short video, Professor Michael Preston-Shoot explores defensible decision-making and offers a legally literate decision-making model for adult social care practice.