Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 October 2025 to Question 80707 on Hospitals: Special Educational Needs, if he will publish a breakdown by region of the over three million people who have completed the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism.

Answered by Zubir Ahmed - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

Under the Health and Care Act 2022, all Care Quality Commission registered providers are required to ensure that their staff receive specific training on learning disability and autism, appropriate to their role. The Government is rolling out its preferred package, the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training (Oliver’s Training) on Learning Disability and Autism, to the health and adult social care workforce.

Oliver’s Training is delivered in two tiers, depending on the level most appropriate for staff. Tier 1 is for general awareness and Tier 2 is a more detailed understanding of learning disability and autism. Each tier is comprised of an e-learning module and either a one-hour webinar, which is Tier 1, or a full-day in-person session, which is Tier 2, delivered alongside people with a learning disability and autistic people.

Information about uptake of Oliver’s Training is collected locally by employers. Over three million people have completed the e-learning package, the first part of the training, which is the same for both tiers. More than 2,700 people have been trained to deliver the second, interactive part of the training nationwide.

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