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Workforce mapping survey results 2022-2023 Thank you to everyone who completed our workforce mapping survey between October 2022 and September 2023. The survey helps us to collect data on the sectors you work in, the client groups you work with, your specialisms and your areas of practice. It also helps us better understand our members’ levels of training, income, capacity for additional employment, and demographic characteristics. We use the information to help build an informed picture of your working practice and identify gaps in provision, which helps us to make a stronger case to policy makers and commissioners. We’ll continue to send members our workforce mapping survey once a year at the point of membership renewal. Your response makes sure we have the most up-to-date member information to support our campaigning and lobbying work. It also helps us to see whether our equality, diversity and inclusion work is having a positive effect on diversifying the demographic profile of our members. Your feedback is vital in contributing to our understanding of who our members are, and we encourage you to complete the survey when you receive it at renewal. The most recent findings are available to view now on our website at www.bacp.co.uk/about-us/about-bacp/6-march- 2022-2023-workforce-mapping-survey
Our Scope of Practice and Education (SCoPEd) framework transition period is open. During this time members who wish to will be able to move between our membership categories, which are aligned to the standards of the SCoPEd framework columns, where they have the relevant skills, training, knowledge and experience to do so. Every member represented on the SCoPEd framework is a qualified professional working to high standards of proficiency, professionalism and ethical practice, and changing lives for the better. Whatever your membership category, you’ll still be able to provide the services you currently do and practise competences in other SCoPEd columns, providing you have the right skills, knowledge, training and experience to do so. This is in line with our existing Ethical Framework , which states that BACP members must work within the limits of their competence. We expect the transition period to last until February 2026 when we’ll enter the integration period. At this time: ! Membership category entry requirements will be fully aligned with SCoPEd columns A, B and C ! Additional and permanent accreditation schemes and routes mapped to the SCoPEd standards and competences of columns B and C will open, enabling members to move membership categories should they wish to do so ! New accreditation routes will be available which reflect training and experience gained through practice and CPD. Courses may need longer to integrate any changes into their training programmes and will have until early 2028 to do so. We’ll continue to support members with regular updates and work with partners as we progress these stages. For more information, see www.bacp.co.uk/scoped Transition period open SCoPEd update
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