1. Quality Standards and Workforce Development Huw Davies & Fred Bowen

2. Learning Disability Employment Strategy Valuing Employment Now: The Government will, by the end of 2009, publish quality standards for job coaching. BIS (Dept of Business, Innovation & Skills) will encourage the relevant Sector Skills Councils to work with awarding organisations to develop qualifications for job coaching. DH will ensure that current work with Skills for Care on learning disability-focused qualification is extended to include job coaching skills and knowledge, such as job carving and systematic instruction and includes training on gender stereotyping in career choices.

3. How this is to be achieved National Development Team will in 2010 produce a strategy to grow the workforce of skilled job coaches, including building skills in systematic instruction The NDT will publish quality standards for job coaching by the end of 2009, and BIS will explore how to accredit them DWP will work with Jobcentre Plus and their service providers to ensure that all DWP programmes and staff training meet the needs of people with moderate and severe learning disabilities from all backgrounds and communities Regional and local Learning Disability Partnership Boards to consider strategies to boost job coach capacity and join up relevant funding streams as part of their delivery plans for Valuing People Now

4. Funding for training Adult Learning Grants Professional and Career Development Loans Train to Gain Government funding for carers who wish to train to be a job coach

5. Issues Standards: How broad should this go – job coaching or supported employment? Which standards – EUSE, Ofsted? Streamlining requirements Inspection of non-DWP providers What support would you need? Training: Learning disability specific – what about other disabilities? –What are the differences? Are Skills for Care the right Sector Skills Council? Ideas? What should be covered in generic LD qualifications? What place for TSI? Qualification levels? Content? What’s the role for BASE?