Warwickshire Quality Partnership was set up as a joint initiative between the independent sector and Warwickshire County Council (WCC) Social Services in November 2002. It utilised specific training grants to support and improve the quality of training in the independent sector of registered service provision in Warwickshire.
In March 2003 Elaine Ives was appointed as Manager of WQP and has been instrumental in starting Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership for Care.
In August 2003 Liz Jones was appointed to work specifically with the providers of learning disability services to push out the new Learning Disability Awards Framework (LDAF) qualification created by Valuing People and to run a qualifications centre through British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) to certificate learners.
Liz was supported by WQP to do this, in particular by Lisa Heames who is the financial manager of the new Learning Disability Qualifications (LDQ) Centre .
The Centre has grown quite quickly and now has many partners and will become a Centre in it’s own right with National Open College Network (NOCN).
Because of this growth Sara Turrell was appointed in February 07 as Qualifications Officer to be responsible for support of the Assessors. |
