Recommendation 7

We recommend that a proportion of maternity budgets should be ringfenced for training in every maternity unit and that NHS Trusts should report this in public through annual Financial and Quality Accounts. It should be for the Maternity The safety of maternity services in England 53 Transformation Programme board to establish what proportion that should be; but it must be sufficient to cover not only the provision of training, but the provision of back- fill to ensure that staff are able to both provide and attend training.