Professional liaison groups

A professional liaison group (or ‘PLG’) provides advice to the Council or committees on strategic issues. Either the Council, or a committee can decide to set up a PLG, to look at a specific issue and report back.

PLGs are project-based, and have a defined timescale with specific pieces of work to achieve.

Each PLG will always have:

• a rationale (a ‘mission statement’);
• terms of reference;
• a plan of activities;
• a timetable; and
• a budget.

The membership of a PLG can vary depending on its needs. A PLG may need members who can provide expert opinion, members who represent organisations or a combination. When the Council sets up a PLG, it will decide what members it needs, and how it will seek these members.

The membership of a PLG may need to include educational institution representatives, employer representatives, patient/client/user representatives, lay members, or other representatives or experts. The convenor of a PLG will normally be a council member.

In May 2008 the Council agreed a revised operating manual for PLGs. 

Agendas and papers for PLGs

• Applied psychologists SOP
• Standards of Education and Training
• Review of the Standards of Proficiency
• Continuing Professional Development
• Continuing fitness to practise
• Review of the Standards of Education and Training
• Psychotherapists and Counsellors
• Review of the Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics