The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities highlights the need for social care practitioners to have access to training and professional development. In England and Wales, legislation places duties on local authorities to ensure that social care for deafblind people is provided by specially trained practitioners. Nevertheless, when this legislation was first implemented, there were very few opportunities in the UK for practitioners to access training beyond a relatively basic level. This workshop describes how Birmingham City University (BCU) worked in collaboration with a charitable consortium to develop two Deafblind Studies courses, supporting local authorities to meet statutory requirements. This workshop will outline the history of the Deafblind Studies courses, first designed by a charitable consortium in the 1990s and delivered until 2018. It will describe the development of these courses by BCU and the consortium into recognisable professional and academic qualifications. This involved extensive consultation with deafblind people, social care practitioners, and researchers. An overview of the courses content will be presented, paying particular attention to features embedded in response to the consultation process: substantial diversity of the deafblind population; complexities and nuance of the congenital-acquired distinction; the needs of deafblind people across the life-course; a salutogenesis approach considering deafblind people's potential.