Micro-credential - Equality Diversity and Inclusion: Policy and People

• Understand how social policy constructs and recognises the risks and needs of a variety of social groups. 

• Critically interrogate how/if social policy contributes and promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion for all in society across a variety of policy domains, and relevant to the learner’s field of interest. 
• Be equipped with the knowledge to debate the underpinning purpose, delivery, and outcomes of policy measures in the context of the lives of the groups of people they were intended to benefit. 
• Evaluate current and possible alternative policies, grounded in reflective analysis, self-directed learning and marshalling of literature and empirical evidence, in the Irish social policy context. 
• Apply their critical and reflective learning, to their area of interest and orientate their learning to their role or sector.