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Ruth Clement is Head of Kent Children’s Therapies at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. A concern was raised about a HCPC-registered therapist that Ruth line-managed. Here she gives her perspective on the events and shares tips for employers or managers in similar situations.

Some of our registrants have been in touch saying they are now in a position to help the NHS and want to know how to offer support

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.

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 want to continually improve our support for education providers in meeting our regulatory requirements, and delivering the best programmes they can. A key part of our work is making sure we understand the experience of those going through education programmes.

Keep up to date with the latest news and information relating to our standards, your registration and your CPD

As an organisation, our aim is to provide the best customer service we can for all our registrants and stakeholders

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

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.