Professor Malcolm MacLachlan:

I want to share one bit of good news with Deputy Ellis, which is in terms of staff training. Before Christmas the Higher Education Authority put out a call for either the development of new courses or the expansion of existing courses in the areas of medicine, nursing, pharmacy and veterinary. We anticipate that in April, it will be putting out the same call for courses in occupational therapy, OT, speech and language therapy, SLT, psychology and social work.

One thing that might be very useful from this committee's point of view would be if there was a strong emphasis on the need for that call to address the needs in disability from a community service development point of view.