Service Structure

Please see below for a description of the Learning Disability Partnership

Joint Management Executive
Assistant Director: Working Age Adults, Adult Social Care, Manchester City Council
Associate Director: Specialist Provision, Manchester Primary Care Trust
Head of Manchester Learning Disability Partnership
Head of Clinical Services: Manchester Learning Disability Partnership
Principal Manger: Joint Commisisoning Team, Learning Disability.

Head of Service

Mark Burton

Principal Manager:

Day Services and Manchester Adult Placement.

Dave Ruane

Principal Manager: Supported Living Accommodation, Casual Bank, Short Breaks Service and Domiciliary Support.

Mike Galway

Principal Manager: Assessment and Intervention and Care Management.

Peter Hughes

Business Manager.

Les Salter

Workforce Development Manager, Manmedia and Safeguarding Adults Lead .
Theresa Hunt

MLDP Professor of Health and Disability.

Duncan Mitchell

Quality and Service Development and Person Centred Planning Lead.

Anna Fedeczko

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Manchester Learning Disability Partnership (MLDP) is an Integrated Provision of Health and Social Care Services established under the flexibilities of the Health Act 1999: however it dates from 1994 when a Joint Learning Disability Service was formed. It is a partnership between Manchester City Council's Adult Social Department and Manchester Primary Care Trust who also have agreements for a Pooled Fund and a Joint Commissioning. MLDP also has agreements with Manchester Metropolitan University who directly employ our Head of Clinical Services (Professor Duncan Mitchell) and collaborate on a number of Research and Development initiatives.

The MLDP Management Team - see above - leads a single management structure providing a seamless, specialist, health and social care service. However a good quality of life can only be facilitated in close collaboration with other resources, the majority of them mainstream ones available to the whole population.

The Management Team reports regularly to the Joint Management Executive - senior officers of the Social Services Department and Central PCT.

The Manchester Learning Disability Partnership Board established in October 2001 (see Valuing People DoH 2000) provides a forum for all learning disability services, both MLDP and Independent Sector. The Board, Chaired by the City Council's Executive Member for Health and Social Care, is primarily responsible for delivering the Valuing People tasks and objectives. It has representatives of City Council and Health Service (including MLDP), self advocates, carers, voluntary and independent providers and other agencies (employment leisure and education etc).