CIPP update
CIPP celebrates 40 years of supporting payroll professionals OCTOBER IS officially our anniversary month as the first meeting of the Association of Payroll and Superannuation Administrators
grips with their studies, passing their exams, becoming better at their jobs because of their studies and making progress in their careers.” What do you think has been the
(APSA) was held on 10 October 1980 in London. And, 40 years on, October 2020 would have seen us hosting our Annual Conference and Exhibition at the Celtic Manor Resort in Wales. So, we thought it appropriate to contact some of the founder members of both APSA and the British Payroll Managers Association (BPMA) which formed in 1985, to ask what they think the Institute’s biggest achievements have been. Ged Dale, founder member of APSA, provided the following comments. “I was a founder member of APSA, and later the chair of the North-West and North Wales Region from approximately 1986 to 1992. With the CIPP I wrote and maintained the Diploma unit on the disclosure of pension information, circa 2012–2016.” What was your motivation for being involved with the Institute? – “Pensions is a large and important area of work. It was crying out for the professionalism that APSA/CIPP could bring to bear, especially via formal qualifications.” What was your proudest moment working for the Institute? – “Not so much pride as delight in seeing colleagues get to
We hope that those of you who took part enjoyed celebrating the payroll profession during National Payroll Week and appreciated the contents of the downloadable pack. We loved seeing and sharing your images and thank you for your support and participation. We are now starting to look ahead to our Annual Conference on 14 and 15 October and are excited about what new opportunities the online event can offer to us all. We look forward to seeing you there and listening to the insights from the speakers and hearing your thoughts at the various roundtables taking place across both days. It’s a great way for all of us to stay up to date with the fast-paced changes that have taken place this year, to share our knowledge and to prepare for the future, whatever it may hold. biggest change for the profession over the last forty years? – “Automation. In 1980, in the Local Government Pension Scheme new membership certificates were still being completed by hand, with the office copy coming via interleaved carbon paper. We still had typing pools and pensions were calculated using pen, paper and calculator. Annual benefit statements didn’t exist as without the necessary computerisation they couldn’t be calculated. And forty years ago, a website was where a spider lived.” What would you like to see the CIPP achieve in the future? – “First of all, it needs to continue with its education programme – if we don’t have payroll and pensions professionals who know what they are doing, then we have nothing. Long live the CIPP!” Thank you, Ged. We’ll feature further responses in future issues of Professional magazine. Ken Pullar, CIPP chief executive officer, said: “Never has it been more important for businesses to have good payroll processes, knowledge and skills that enable them to implement new government legislation and guidance quickly. “Congratulations to those organisations that have recently demonstrated just that.” The Payroll Assurance Scheme is still operating, with assessments currently operating online. To find out how the Payroll Assurance Scheme can benefit your organisation, email compliance@cipp.org.uk.
Raising standards and recognition from Parliament IF THE pandemic has taught us anything, it’s the need to be prepared for whatever might come our way. Here at the CIPP, we are focussing on how we can help the payroll industry stay up to date with the fast-paced changes and needs of the sector. This may be through our updated and new training courses, our topical policy webcasts or via our annual Future of Payroll survey which was released in early September. Our aim is not only to raise the standard of the payroll
profession, but to raise its external profile too, which is why we are extremely pleased to have received a letter of recognition, on behalf of the payroll industry and backing our National Payroll Week initiative, from both Jesse Norman MP, minister with strategic oversight of the UK tax system, and Julian Knight, MP for Solihull.
Congratulations to the newly accredited PAS organisations THE CIPP’s Payroll Assurance Scheme (PAS) is designed to test your payroll processes in relation to payroll processing, compliance and the people skills and development opportunities.
One of the most important elements is ensuring business continuity plans are in place and effective should they be required. Given recent events, congratulations to all organisations that have achieved this accreditation and will have been able to put those plans into action. Congratulations to our recently accredited organisations: ● A2+B ● PPG Industries UK Limited
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