This is the Workforce Planning and Development Strategy for Sheffield’s
Learning Disabilities Partnership Board for adults with learning
disabilities. The workforce includes
all people who work directly with individuals who have a learning disability
and those who have more infrequent contact such as bus drivers and leisure
centre workers.
The strategy describes how we plan to support and develop the learning
disabilities services workforce in Sheffield so that we can fully implement
“Valuing People” and the key principles within ‘Our health, Our care, Our say’,
most specifically Self Directed Support and its inherent goals for
citizenship.
We
will identify workforce planning and development issues for all professional
groups, qualified and unqualified staff, support staff and their managers in
all sectors. We will also address the
developmental needs of people who work in generic services about how best they
can support people with a learning disability and their carers, using their
services.
