I don't think training is a common thing wherever you work - the assumption is that you will learn by doing the skills you need. I'm a marketer in financial services and the push to maintain CPD comes from my professional organisations - not my company. Marketing has changed a lot since the internet came along - and it's important that FS marketers understand what they are marketing so they are sold correctly - but my FS qualifications are never requested on job descriptions and my marketing qualifications are nice to haves. As the saying goes, experience means you've been doing something a long time - it doesn't mean you've been doing it properly. I think there are a lot of areas where more of a focus on life long learning would be a good thing - but people are worried about what to do with the people who aren't up to snuff (hence all the grandfathering when regs are brought in). I'd vote for five yearly driving tests, for example. But it does strike me as particularly worrying that there seems to be such a culture of actively preventing you from training in LAS. What have you done to raise it higher up in the organisation? You're a public figure with the ability to guage peer opinion - you might find you have more clout than you think...