"But the training needs to be almost like racing".
Any training needs to be focused on that role.
"The training needs to be way better," she said.
Mr. Fyfe said in an interview that antiterrorism training needs to be expanded.
This is important, because parenting training needs to be de-stigmatized.
The child protection officer thinks that training needs to be improved, with much more emphasis on reality and practice-based learning, and lengthy placements in the sector.
"Our guys work full days, from 10.30am to 5pm – it's a bit of a myth that training needs to be short and sharp," he said.
This training needs to be tailored to the specific issues of hospitals, care homes and community care – generic leadership courses are not good enough.
* A root-and-branch review by the NHS to assess how it treats transgender patients and what training needs to be put in place for staff.
Training needs to be nested in a broader corporate strategy, she says, so that what is learned is reinforced by the organisation and there is a framework for accountability.
The lesson seems to be that teacher training needs to be hard to get into, not easy.Teaching the teachersHaving got good people, there is a temptation to shove them into classrooms and let them get on with it.
