The problem worth solving
Providers who serve members of several bodies often submit the same course for review three or four times, against requirements that overlap heavily. Members meanwhile cannot tell which badge on a course page means anything for their own record.
A published mapping fixes both. It tells providers what they only have to prove once, and it tells members which accreditations count towards their obligations to you.
How a mapping works
Share your scheme
You send us the CPD requirements you place on members: hours, categories, evidence, and anything you currently review yourselves.
Compare against the Standards
We work through the outcomes in each domain and identify which of your requirements they already satisfy, which they partly satisfy, and which they do not touch.
Agree the gaps
Where a requirement of yours is not covered, we say so plainly. You then decide whether to keep reviewing that yourselves or to add it as a supplementary condition on activities aimed at your members.
Publish the mapping
Both sides publish the same mapping document so providers and members can see exactly what accreditation does and does not discharge.
What you end up with
- A table linking each of your requirements to the outcomes in the Standards that satisfy it.
- A named list of your requirements that accreditation does not evidence.
- Agreed wording that providers can use when describing an accredited activity to your members, so it neither overstates nor understates what the accreditation covers.
- A review point, so the mapping is revisited when either scheme changes.
Where mapping stops
A mapping does not delegate your decisions to us. You continue to decide what counts towards membership, and we continue to decide what meets the Standards. Neither side gains a veto over the other.
We will not agree a mapping that implies accreditation evidences something it does not. If your requirement is about a member's individual competence rather than the quality of an activity, accreditation cannot evidence it, and we will say so rather than write it in.
Starting a conversation
Tell us what your scheme requires and which professions it covers. If accreditation is the wrong instrument for what you need, we would rather tell you at the first conversation.