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514784

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date	21/04/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Learning Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps other than the social care precept the Government is taking to ensure that local authorities are able adequately to fund services for people with learning disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Torridge and West Devon
tabling member printed	Mr Geoffrey Cox
uin	34981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>In addition to the social care precept, which gives local authorities access to up to £2 billion for adult social care by 2019/20; the Government has supported adult social care, which includes care for those with learning disabilities, by giving local authorities access to up to £1.5 billion of new support by 2019/20. This is based on the additional social care monies to be included in the Better Care Fund.</p><p> </p><p>In the national service model and <em>Building the Right Support</em> published in October 2015, NHS England, the Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services set out how areas would be supported to deliver lasting change to people with a learning disability and/or autism who display behaviour that challenges.</p><p> </p><p>This includes service transformation – shifting money from some services, such as inpatient care, into others, such as community services.</p><p> </p><p>To support this NHS England is making available up to £30 million of transformation funding over three years, to be matched by clinical commissioning groups, and £15 million in capital funding. This funding is in addition to the £10 million which was made available to six fast track areas in 2015/16.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 27/04/2016 09:21:02 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1508 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Cox

475742

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Learning Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to develop a long-term workforce strategy for learning disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	31169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>Health Education England (HEE) was established to deliver a better healthcare workforce for England and using all available data is accountable for ensuring that we have a National Health Service workforce in the right numbers, with the right skills, values and behaviours to respond to the current and future needs of patients.</p><p>HEE has been working with Skills for Care, Skills for Health and national transforming care partners to deliver a comprehensive workforce strategy to transform services for people with a learning disability, autism and/or behaviour that challenges to make a significant and lasting improvement to their care and lives.</p><p>HEE has developed and made available a number of enabling tools and resources that can be utilised throughout Transforming Care Partnership including:</p><p>- a Learning Disability Skills and Competency Framework which adopts a competency based approach to workforce planning and development;</p><p>- a series of role templates to support the development of community and enhanced community teams; and</p><p>- HEE Learning Disability Expert Reference Group Chaired by Baroness Hollins is exploring the career framework opportunities within health and social care for the development of new roles and education and training pathway.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 21/03/2016 16:26:04 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

455342

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Learning Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the report by Sir Stephen Bubb, Time for Change: the challenge ahead, published in February 2016, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of establishing a commissioner for people with learning disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	28525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department will consider the recommendations made in Time for Change – the Challenge Ahead, as part of development work on our Learning Disability Action Plan and in delivering the commitments we made in the Government’s response to ‘No voice unheard, no right ignored’ consultation published in November 2015. However, new statutory roles and legislation are not necessarily the answer to promoting and protecting the rights of people with learning disabilities and their families.</p><p> </p><p>In the response to ‘No voice unheard, no right ignored’, we set out how we can make more rapid and meaningful progress by ensuring that the rights that exist under current laws and statutes are properly understood, implemented and exercised by those with learning disabilities and/or autism. This work is underway and we have made a clear commitment to consider legislation if the actions we propose do not create sufficient progress.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 01/03/2016 14:32:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

453847

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Learning Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is on the introduction of a learning disabilities commissioner with a statutory duty to promote and protect the rights of all people with learning disabilities and their families as recommended by the report of the Transforming Care and Commissioning Steering Group, Winterbourne View - Time for Change, published in November 2014.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	27814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department will consider the recommendations made in Time for Change – the Challenge Ahead, as part of development work on our Learning Disability Action Plan and in delivering the commitments we made in the Government’s response to ‘No voice unheard, no right ignored’ consultation published in November 2015. However, new statutory roles and legislation are not necessarily the answer to promoting and protecting the rights of people with learning disabilities and their families.</p><p> </p><p>In the response to ‘No voice unheard, no right ignored’, we set out how we can make more rapid and meaningful progress by ensuring that the rights that exist under current laws and statutes are properly understood, implemented and exercised by those with learning disabilities and/or autism. This work is underway and we have made a clear commitment to consider legislation if the actions we propose do not create sufficient progress.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 01/03/2016 14:45:07 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden