National Assembly for Wales

Information relating to vacancies across Wales for psychologists trained to deal with patients with learning difficulties, relies on bringing data from systems within a range of organisations, and as a result is not routinely held centrally. 
 
Despite the difficult financial climate I have been clear about the need to maintain our investment in the education and training of health professionals. In February, I announced a £95m package to support a range of education and training programmes in Wales.  As part of this package, I was able to maintain the level of investment in training places for clinical psychologists, which for the years 2015 to 2017 is the highest level of training places since devolution.

The table below sets out the level of training places commissioned in Wales from 2008 to 2017.

The training to become a clinical psychologist is not specific to learning disabilities. This is a chosen specific area that staff move into following the completion of the general training. Therefore, information on the number of psychologists trained to deal with learning disabilities is not held centrally.