Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training – Broker/Consortium Service- NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board is seeking to procure a broker/consortium to oversee the governance/quality/resourcing/training the trainers of sub-contractors that the broker/consortium sources for the delivery of the interactive elements of the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training.

• Tier 1 – 60-minute webinar
• Tier 2 – 6-hour face to face classroom training.

Following a long campaign led by Oliver McGowan’s mother Paula McGowan OBE, Health Education England, the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and Skills for Care launched The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism e-learning.

Oliver’s death shone a light on the need for health and social care staff to have better training and aims to provide the health and care workforce with 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 for all CQC regulated service providers.