§ Mr. Colin Shepherdasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he has received the second part of the report on in-service training of the General Nursing Council—Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work joint working group on training for staff working with mentally handicapped people; and if he will make a statement.
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§ Mr. FowlerI welcome publication of the group's second report and look forward to receiving the views of the councils and their successors on the recommendations made both in this report and in the group's first report on qualifying training.
The group's recommendations on in-service training are particularly timely in view of our present initiatives to speed up the shift to community care and I await the council's views on how we may best make progress.