ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the issues and challenges around providing positive inter-agency training to meet the practitioner training needs of those involved in post-registration work. It outlines the wider issues involved in understanding the proper function of training and its relationship to policy and practice. The proper role and function of training is not to provide the solution to ‘something must be done’, but to provide the means to inform staff about that change or solution once established: ‘From a training perspective what is crucial is to establish a common set of principles about practice which then inform policy making. When working in the training area people can focus down on training delivery and training content, but to achieve a positive training strategy it is important to work at achieving a positive organisational context. A training course is an event where disparate groups of people come together to undertake a task.
