SEND training guide for professionals

7. Mandatory Training for specific partners

Inclusion / SEND to be embedded within current training programmes, dependent on area of work.

Education providers

The Virtual School provide fully funded training for schools and settings in Lancashire on attachment and trauma.

Local authority partners

Course centre - Blackburn with Darwen Learning (melearning.university) 

• Equality Diversity and Inclusion
• Care Certificate Standard 4 - Equality and Diversity

Health and Social Care

The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism for health and social care staff provides training to help them understand people who have a learning disability and autistic people. The government made the training a requirement for CQC registered service providers to ensure the health and social care workforce have the right skills and knowledge to provide safe, compassionate, and informed care to autistic people and people with a learning disability. This requirement is set out in the Health and Care Act 2022.