THE CIPP
Compliance and best practice
PAS and PQP – a great combination Separately, the Payroll Assurance Scheme (PAS) and the Payroll Quality Partnership (PQP) have both been very successful schemes in improving the payroll function in more than 100 organisations and now CIPP is offering these two accreditations as one package.
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Bringing the two schemes together allows CIPP to make enhancements to both, but at the same time recognise the differences between the two. In short, PAS is concerned with compliance and best practice processes in operational payroll whereas PQP is concerned with best practice in ensuring that the learning and development needs of the staff following those processes are met.
CIPP’s vision is that the PAS and PQP accreditation will become the de facto standard for payroll operations in the UK.
PAS and PQP accreditation – the process PAS examines over 60 facets of the payroll operation and highlights areas of payroll process and practice which could lead to legislative non-compliance, and therefore financial penalties, involving HMRC, Department for Work and pensions, The Pensions Regulator and other authorities.
PQP is designed to ensure that the staff who follow your payroll processes are properly trained, performance managed and have opportunities for continuous development and learning as part of keeping your payroll operation compliant.
The accreditation is straightforward and support is available from CIPP in the early stages to ensure that you are heading in the right direction in your preparations for the accreditation assessment days. For clarity, one day will be dedicated to PAS and another to PQP.
The benefits of accreditation ● Achieving accreditation will demonstrate to existing and prospective customers, suppliers, employees and colleagues that the organisation is committed to ensuring compliance and best practice in payroll and is dedicated to the development, motivation, recruitment and retention of staff in the payroll function ● Potential improvements in processes leading to greater effectiveness and efficiencies within the payroll function and also to time and cost savings for other departments and your organisation ● Increased staff motivation and lower staff attrition rates achieved by demonstrating the organisation’s commitment to the staff’s learning and development
For more information, please visit payrollcompliance.org.uk , email compliance@cipp.org.uk or call 0121 712 1000.
“Assessment through the Payroll Assurance Scheme was undertaken to provide an external review of core processes and to assure the quality of them. The assessment process was a welcome review and in addition to endorsing existing processes, enabled further areas for improvement to be highlighted. Recognition gained through obtaining the PAS kitemark was seen as formal acknowledgement of high quality payroll processing which staff and customers, both internal and external, find valuable. It was a logical decision for us to also seek accreditation through PQP; we were very keen to recognise the quality and commitment of our staff who had worked hard to achieve our effective and streamlined processes.” Dumfries & Galloway Council
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For more information please visit cipp.org.uk or email info@cipp.org.uk
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