Member

Amendment 145, in the name of the noble Earl, Lord Howe, and supported by the noble Lord, Lord Kamall, relates to a review on mandatory training for professionals with responsibility for treating people with a learning disability and autistic people under the Mental Health Act. We absolutely recognise the importance of monitoring the training that staff undertake. For example, I am pleased that a long-term evaluation of the delivery and impact of the Oliver McGowan mandatory training has been commissioned. As noble Lords may know, this training has been developed and rolled out to support providers to meet the Health and Care Act requirement that I referred to earlier. The findings of the evaluation, taking place over three years, will be a great help to us in understanding how it has been implemented and its impact, because there is a lot of reliance on, as well as reference to, that training.