Maintaining your accreditation
Accreditation is awarded for five years. To retain your accreditation for the full term you must:
- maintain your 香港六合彩精准资料 organisational membership
- pay the annual accreditation fee
- comply with the Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions
- continue to meet all criteria for the service accreditation scheme
- submit a rolling annual review form for assessment
- inform us of any proposed changes to the service or the overall organisation, before they are implemented
- abide by the service accreditation terms and conditions
If you do not meet these requirements, or if we uphold a professional conduct complaint against you, we may withdraw, suspend or impose conditions upon your service accreditation.
Annual rolling review
Once your service is awarded accreditation, you will have an rolling annual review.
Your first annual review will be a video conference call with an accreditation assessor and an accreditation officer. This is a chance to see how things are going and to continue building our relationship.
For the next four annual review submissions, we鈥檒l ask you to provide evidence that you鈥檙e meeting selected accreditation criteria for assessment. In the fifth year the review assessment will include a video conference call from the accreditation assessor as a 鈥榲irtual鈥� visit.
Your accreditation will then roll-over into another five-year cycle, and we鈥檒l ask you to evidence the original eligibility criteria in your first annual review submission.聽
We will email the annual review templates to you with a deadline for submission. This ensures that you only complete the correct form each year.
Promoting your accredited service
You must comply with our advertising policies when using your accredited service logo or status in publicity or information material.
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Changes to an accredited service
You should contact us to discuss any significant changes that may affect your service, such as an internal restructure or merger, when you find out or are in internal consultation about them, and when they occur. You must also inform us of any changes taking place within your organisation in your annual review submission.
It's your responsibility to keep us informed so please contact us to discuss anything you are unsure about.
Adding additional services
You may be able to extend your accreditation to cover any new counselling or psychotherapy service or project. We may ask you to submit a Changes application form containing just some key criteria to evidence for assessment. We will email the form to you after we have spoken with you. Submission is free of charge.
If the new service is a distinct service with its own policies and procedures, funding and governance, it will need its own accreditation and you'll need to submit a new application in full.
If your organisation merges with another
If you鈥檙e facing a potential merger with another organisation, you may find your service accreditation needs to be reviewed. Our mergers protocol includes a flowchart to help you in your considerations.
Organisational mergers protocol (pdf 0.1MB)
Please talk to us as soon as you are aware of changes that may take place, or at the very least, when they come into force so we can discuss options and how we could support your service accreditation through the changes.
Further information and guides
Guidelines for services working with children and young people (pdf 0.1MB)
Service accreditation terms and conditions (pdf 0.1MB)
If you have any questions about service accreditation, please contact us at accred.service@bacp.co.uk
