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How to consider applicants with convictions or cautions and make decisions regarding their suitability for registration and ability to provide a professional service for the public. 

We are calling on employers, managers, education providers, professional bodies and unions to prevent these behaviours from happening, and to encourage greater reporting when they do. As a regulator of 15 different professions, the HCPC has a role to play too.

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Last summer, we asked all pre-registration programmes to plan how they would meet the revised standards of education and training (SETs). From the 2018–19 academic year, we will assess whether your programme has met these standards via our annual monitoring process.

You need to make informed and reasonable decisions about your own practice to make sure that you always respect and protect the confidentiality of service users

We recently released updates to our standards of proficiency, which come into effect on 1 September 2023.

We emailed education providers due their performance review in 2022-23 and 2023-24 in early August. Providers who will undergo the process this year (2022-23) will have been given specific requirements and a key contact to work with at the HCPC. 

Complete the three online training modules by 31 March 2019, and don’t forget annual monitoring assessment days are going paperless

Total number of registrants for the main HCPC Register, broken down by profession (1 March 2023).