Greater Manchester Learning Disability Joint Training Partnership

This Partnership has been set up in order to:

1. Plan, co-ordinate and deliver training for staff from Health and Social Care about learning disability issues.
   
2. Plan and co-ordinate workforce development for staff working with people with learning disabilities.
   
3. Ensure that as far as is possible training is done in a joined-up way across the agencies of Health, Social Services and the non-statutory sectors.
   
4. Help facilitate the delivery of both the general training needs of all staff working with people with learning disabilities, and also the specific needs of specialist learning disability professionals and groups.
   
5. Help facilitate the delivery of training needs across service sectors that people concern people with learning disabilities, e.g. people with learning disabilities who have mental health issues, people who are older, interfaces with the range of children’s services.
   
6. Share (and where appropriate, develop) best practice in training
   
7. Work together across organisational and geographical boundaries to get the benefits of scale and of shared learning that such a joint partnership can achieve.
   
8. Collate information on learning needs and translate these into training plans.
   
9. Provide a focus for sharing information on training and workforce issues in relation to the implementation of the Valuing People White Paper.
   
10. Be proactive in identifying and responding to new training needs as a result of new developments in legislation, policies, or best practice.
    
11. Promote shared high standards of good practice in training and workforce issues.
    
12. Explore, create and strengthen opportunities for partnership working with Workforce Development, the Skills Sector Councils, Learning and Skills Council.
    
13. Be proactive in applying for increased funding for training and development.
    

In addition to the above points, the Partnership will:

1. lnclude and involve people with learning disabilities and family members/carers in all its workings.
   
2. Facilitate access to training/development programmes for people with learning disabilities and family members/carers
   
3. Actively promote the inclusion, involvement and empowerment of people with learning disabilities and family members/carers in all stages of training and workforce development.
   
4. Ensure effective ongoing links between the Group and the following:-

   a. All the constituent organisations of the partnership.

   b. The Strategic Health Authority.

   c. The North West Training and Development Team.

   d. The Valuing People Support Team for the North West (CSIP).

   e. Local Partnership Boards and local arrangements for training.

   f. Validating/awarding bodies

   g. Academic institutions and colleges

   h. Funding bodies

   i. Other groups and organisations that can promote and assist in achieving the aims of this group. This will include both specialist and generic community organisations and agencies.

5. Ensure that the work of the group is effectively communicated to other groups and organisations involved in training and workforce development relating to people with learning disabilities.
   
6. Cover the Local Authority and NHS Trust areas of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan
   
7. Usually meet 6 times a year.
   
8. Members will take responsibility for bringing issues from their own local areas, and ensuring that issues from the Group are fed back to their own areas.