Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government which universities provide undergraduate courses for the training of nurses for people with learning disabilities; and how many places are provided each year on each of those courses.
Health Education England (HEE) does not hold information around which universities provide learning disability courses at a national level. Learning disability courses are commissioned locally by the 13 Local Education Training Boards (LETBs) through universities within their geographical area. At a national level HEE only holds total commissions for learning disabilities nursing.
In December 2014, HEE published its Workforce Plan for England which includes its planned Education & Training Commissions for 2015-16.
Within learning disabilities nursing they will increase commissions from 653 in 2014-15 to 664 in 2015-16. This represents an increase of 1.7%.