Bild chosen to deliver national Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training Trial
Building Bridges Training • July 18, 2020
Bild has been chosen by Health Education England as one of the partners to deliver the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Learning Disability and Autism Training trial.
Bild will be leading a coalition of organisations, including Building Bridges, to co-design and co-deliver training for the 12-month trial, aimed at health and social care staff who support people with learning disabilities and autistic people.
The training is named after Oliver McGowan, a young autistic man who died after being given anti-psychotic medication in hospital. His death highlighted the need for health and social care staff to have better access to training that offers greater understanding of these conditions. His mother Paula McGowan led a campaign for more training.
Bild will lead a coalition of 15 organisations, which includes social care providers, public authorities, experts by experience, academics and regulators.
Building Bridges Training are offering to produce one piece of easy read information by the end of March 2025. We are looking for ideas from groups, or individuals with a learning disability.
Building Bridges are working on a project about ‘reasonable adjustments’; and the small things mainstream services can do to make a big difference to people with a learning disability.
We are still working on these easy read documents, and they should be available soon. We are working closely with climate change activists to ensure our information is correct.
