The programme brings together expert input and practical case studies across five broad areas where the Human Rights Act can make a real difference in social policy and practice: health, care, housing, education and welfare.

These five areas cut across many communities and issues, for example:

• Education might involve accessibility support for disabled children, but it may also involve migrant children’s access to education.
• Housing can be about addressing dangerous social housing conditions, but also about access to safe accommodation  for women escaping violence.
• Welfare issues may span access to support for people with a No Recourse to Public Funds, to making PIP assessments more accessible.
• Care can be about reducing restrictive practices for people in inpatient settings to ensuring people are involved in conversations around their care.
• Health can range from ensuring that important medical information is accessible, to making sure that people are not denied important healthcare when they need it.

These are key spaces where human rights tools are often under‑used, despite their potential to strengthen everyday decisions and outcomes.

Participants are required to attend 4 of the 5 online workshops to receive a certificate of completion. Participation at BIHR’s London Summer Event is optional, participation at our Annual Human Rights Conference on 10 December is required and a travel bursary is offered. This is because our Academy Alumni will have the opportunity to showcase their learning and insights at our Annual Human Rights Day Gathering to an audience of wider civil society, policymakers, parliamentarians, academics and lawyers. We’ll plan this together as a group.