Valuing People Now

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Valuing People Now

• Workforce Issues
• Developing People

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Big Headlines general

• People having more choice and control over their
  lives and services personalisation
• What people do in the day and evenings including
  getting a job
• People being healthy and getting a good service
  from the NHS
• People having more choices about where they live
• Making sure that Valuing people happens for
  everyone

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Big Headlines specific

• Action will be led by the Adult social care
  workforce strategy board to review learning
  disability workforce issues
• National and local action to increase take up of
  the learning disability qualification
• Local training to ensure a focus on skills to
  support choice, control and social inclusion

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Social Care Workforce Strategy Board

• The boards remit is to identify the key
  workforce priorities as part of the new strategic
  framework to underpin and enable delivery of the
  reform of social care particularly in the
  personalisation agenda

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Learning Disability Qualification (LDQ)

• Skills for Care is taking responsibility for
  developing this
• Skills for Care will work in partnership with
  Valuing People to increase the uptake of LDQ
  beyond the 4 induction units

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LDQ current situation

• Four induction units
• Five new knowledge sets
• 90 of feedback has been incorporated into the
  final sets that are being approved
• Relationships
• Accessing and Using Information
• Communication
• History and Context
• Independence and Well-Being

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LDQ Future work

• Work will be undertaken with awarding bodies to
  create qualifications
• Further learning disability knowledge sets will
  be commissioned
• LDQ modules will be used by generic staff to
  promote general disability awareness
• There will be a continued focus on achieving LDQ
  in the performance and regulatory framework

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Workforce Plans

• Partnership boards to review local workforce
  plans in light of personalisation agenda
• Training should be reviewed to ensure it reflects
  the needs and life aspirations of the people that
  staff are supporting
• People with learning disabilities and family
  carers should be employed as paid trainers

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Workforce Issues fromthe Big Priorities

• Promote wider understanding of the Disability
  Equality Duty (DDA 2006) Learning Disability
  awareness for mainstream organisations and
  services
• Workforce planning in response to the learning
  from new types of worker project
• Local strategic partnerships administering the
  adult social care workforce grant (replacing
  NTSG) influencing decision making of these and
  ensuring learning disability agenda

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Personalisation

• Workforce plans to reflect growing group of
  people having IB/DP
• Workforce plans to consider issues/knowledge
  required by non traditional services
  e.g.finance/procurement/contracting
• Learning and development activity for employers
  who are people with a learning disability/family
  carers
• Learning and development for those directly
  employed by individuals new ways of working

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What people do during the day

• Clearer understanding of person centred planning
  resulting in people being more connected in their
  communities worker skills assertiveness, local
  knowledge etc
• Specialised roles such as job Coaching,
  partnership working with mainstream employment
  services
• Ensuring prompt and responsive capacity for
  benefits advice
• Increased numbers of people employed in the
  public sector, access to learning and development
  and qualifications

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Better Health

• Awareness and education programme for the NHS
  about the DDA PCT and NHS Disability Equality
  schemes to address inequalities
• Workforce plans to include both specialist and
  primary health care workers also to include new
  types of health worker roles
• SHAs and PCTs to develop commissioning
  expertise in relation to the healthcare needs of
  people with a learning disability

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Improving peoples housing

• Workforce plans to reflect the changes required
  by NHS campus closures
• Learning and development for mainstream housing
  services
• New ways of working will increase the amount of
  housing based support workforce plans will need
  to reflect the different skills this will require

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Wider Agenda - 1

• Workforce plans to reflect self-advocate and
  family carer leadership
• New roles and functions from the Mental Capacity
  Act
• Focus on supporting advocacy to have a greater
  impact ensuring sufficient numbers of skilled
  advocates/workers
• Workforce plans to respond to the needs of
  developing User Led Organisations
• Attention to development of skills in Accessible
  Information
• Ensuring people with learning disabilities are
  supported to be effective partnership board
  members

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Wider Agenda - 2

• National programme of training through
• Expert Carers programme
• Workforce plans to pay attention to changing
  demographics e.g. rise in complex health needs,
  ageing population and needs of BME communities
• Plans to reflect findings of Equality Impact
  Assessments
• Plans to respond to the need for people in the
  criminal justice system to be increasingly
  supported by services and staff with skills,
  knowledge and competencies
• Partnership working with the police around hate
  crime training police and advocates
• Inclusion of learning disabilities in Disability
  Awareness training programmes for transport staff

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Two Questions .

• What are the key workforce issues in your area?
• What would help you to develop your local and
  regional workforce plans to respond to the
  Valuing People Now agenda?
• Respond to the Valuing People Now consultation
• www.valuingpeople.gov.uk

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