Continuing Professional Development Requirements
We can advise you on the ways in which members of your team can meet the requirement to undertake CPD, and how to plan and record their activities.
Maintaining technical and regulatory excellence depends critically upon the possession of up-to-date relevant knowledge of the areas on which you work. The CPD requirements of the various professional bodies are aimed at ensuring that their members and those who work in their firms remain informed about everything they need to know in order to do their jobs properly. In order to address the requirements satisfactorily, it is necessary to consider the role being undertaken, identify the demands that the role will make in the coming months, and determine the CPD activity which will satisfy those demands.
The nature of the CPD requirements means that, although conventional structured activity such as attendance at courses is likely to go much of the way towards achieving compliance, many other activities such as working on new areas, participating in technical discussion groups and devising new ways of carrying out common tasks can all contribute to meeting the objectives.
Although the principles are the same across the professional bodies, each has a different set of detailed requirements, and the challenge is in ensuring that the relevant demands are met, especially where members of different professional bodies are working in the same firm. We can help you to identify the particular CPD needs of each of your team members, assist with sourcing suitable activities to meet those needs, and ensure that the activities are recorded and assessed in a way which meets the relevant professional body’s requirements.