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The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism is named after Oliver McGowan, whose death shone a light on the need for health and social care staff to have better training. The Health and Care Act 2022 introduced a statutory requirement that regulated service providers must ensure their staff receive learning disability and autism training appropriate to their role.   

The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training is the standardised training that was developed for this purpose and is the government's preferred and recommended training for health and social care staff.

Oliver's Training also supports the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan ambition by upskilling the wider health and care workforce to provide appropriately adjusted care for people with a learning disability and autistic people to reduce health inequality.

Together we can prevent the many avoidable deaths like Oliver’s from happening again. The animation below aims to help staff and employers across health and social care to understand Oliver's Training and why it is so vitally important.

Be Well's involvement in The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training Trials

Be Well have been involved in The Oliver McGowan programme of work since it’s inception in 2020. During this period, we were commissioned to design The Oliver McGowan course to train expert co-trainers with lived experience of a learning disability.

Be Well work with employers and develop autistic expert

co-trainers and co-trainers with lived experience of a learning disability to co-deliver The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning and Autism.

Here you can find out more about Be Well's involvement during the training trials.

About Olivers Training

The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training is the standardised training that was developed for this purpose and is the government's preferred and recommended training for health and social care staff.

Oliver's training has been co-produced and is co-delivered by experts with lived experience of learning disability and/or autism.

Here you can read updates on Oliver's training and find out how to book a course.