The GCF told us that there are professional standards that assess whether the learning curriculum is working. The GCF commented it was one of the first government functions to introduce professional standards. The GCF explained that it assesses commercial staff via a day-long assessment centre which is improving standards of training across grades.61 7,000 people have been put through that assessment centre. It told us that, of the 1,500 or so senior staff in the Government Commercial Organisation (GCO), who are employed centrally and then deployed to departments, 86% are fully accredited.62