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Workforce
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What is Workforce?
Workforce means all staff who work with people with learning disabilities.
Because Valuing People says that services should change, this means that staff will have to change too.
This might mean new kinds of jobs, or working in new ways.
This means we need to think about how to get the right people into these jobs, how to make sure they have the right training, and how to make sure they want to stay working with people with learning disabilities, if they are good at it.
Valuing People talks about people getting a good deal from all public services, so workforce should also cover the training and help staff in these services get, so they can do a good job for people with learning disabilities.
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What does Valuing People say?
The government wants staff who work with people with learning disabilities to have the right skills and training to do their jobs well.
It wants people who work in all services to understand more about people with learning disabilities.
Government Objective: To ensure that social and health care staff working with people with learning disabilities are appropriately skilled, trained and qualified; and to promote a better understanding of the needs of people with learning disabilities amongst the wider workforce.
When Valuing People was written it said:
- We think there are about 83,000 staff working in services for people with learning disabilities
- Most of these people (we think 75% of them) don't have qualifications that are to do with these jobs
- It can be difficult to find and keep staff, including professionals
- People don't always think working with people with learning disablities is a good job to have (it has a low status)
- There are not many accredited training qualifications that are recognised
- People have not thought much about workforce planning
- Not everyone is involving people with learning disabilities or family carers in training or planning.
- 'Health and Social Care Workforce Strategies' to provide new opportunities for learning disability staff
- New qualifications called the Learning Disability Awards Framework came in April 2002
- Some money from the 'Learning Disability Development Fund' would go to to help make more leaders and help people who are leaders get more skills.
- Each Partnership Board would have to write local Workforce Planning and Training Plans
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Links and Resources
None Currently.