Accreditation decisions

In July 2021, we introduced a new assessment cycle replacing the previous full annual assessment. Every Register now has a full assessment against our Standards for Accredited Registers once every three years. We undertake annual monitoring in between the full assessments, to check whether there are any significant changes. You can read the most recent full report for each Register at the link below. Please note that whilst reports issued before July 2021 will indicate the accreditation was renewed for a year, accreditation is now ongoing if marked ‘Valid’ below. Reports issued before July 2021 will have been assessed under our previous Standards.

Accredited Register report

Academy for Healthcare Science - Status: Valid

Genetic Counsellor Registration Board - Status: Merged

Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists - Status: Merged

Alliance of Private Sector Practitioners - Impact Assessment: Withdrew from accreditation as of 31 March 2024 - Impact Assessment APSP

Association of Child Psychotherapists - Status: Valid

Association of Christians in Counselling and Linked Professions. We have now published our report of how the ACC met Conditions issued following our targeted review. - Impact Assessment 2024 ACC - Status: Valid

Athena Herd Foundation - Impact Assessment Athena Herd

British Acupuncture Council - Status: Valid

British Association of Play Therapists - Impact Assessment BAPT - Status: Valid

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Following a targeted review of the BACP, we issued new Conditions of Accreditation in March 2024. - Status: Valid

British Association of Sports Rehabilitators and Trainers - Impact Assessment BASRaT - Status: Valid

British Occupational Hygiene Society - Impact Assessment BOHS - Status: Valid

British Psychoanalytic Council - Status: Valid

British Psychological Society - Impact Assessment BPS

CBT Register (BABCP/AREBT) - Impact Assessment CBT Register 2023

Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council - Impact Assessment CNHC - Status: Valid

COSCA (Counselling and Psychotherapy in Scotland) - Status: Valid

Federation of Holistic Therapists - From 9 January 2022, the FHT withdrew from accreditation (please see the register’s directory page for further details) - Impact assessment: Withdrew from accreditation as of 9 January 2022

Human Givens Institute - Impact Assessment HGI - Status: Valid

Institute of Trichologists - Impact Assessment IoT - Status: Valid

International Federation of Aromatherapists - Impact Assessment - Status: Valid

Joint Council for Cosmetic Practitioners - Impact Assessment JCCP - Status: Valid

National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society / National Hypnotherapy Society - Status: Valid

Play Therapy UK - We have now published our report on how PTUK met Conditions issued in April 2023 - Status: Valid

Register of Clinical Technologists - Impact Assessment RCT - Status: Valid

Rehabilitation Workers Professional Network - Impact Assessment RWPN - Status: Valid

Save Face - Impact Assessment Save Face - Status: Valid

Society of Homeopaths - From 23 July 2021, the SoH has withdrawn from the programme - Status: Withdrawn

UK Association for Humanistic Psychology Practitioners - Impact Assessment UKAHPP - Status: Valid

UK Board of Health Chaplaincy - Impact Assessment UK BHC - Status: Valid

UK Public Health Register - Impact Assessment UKPHR - Status: Valid

UK Society for Behaviour Analysis - We have now published our report of how the UK-SBA met Conditions issued following their initial assessment - Impact Assessment UK SBA - Status: Valid

UK Council for Psychotherapy - Impact Assessment UKCP - Status: Valid

Please contact the Accreditation team to request previous decisions.

Preliminary Standard One decisions

Organisations may apply for preliminary assessment against Standard One before submitting a full application. More about how we assess against Standard One can be found in our Supplementary Guidance for Standard One. The organisations below have not yet been fully accredited and are not able to use our quality mark. 

Society of Clinical Perfusion Scientists (SCPS) – Standard One provisionally me - Impact Assessment: (July 2024)

Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine - Standard One provisionally met         

Interpersonal Psychotherapy UK - Standard One provisionally met    

International Foundation for Therapeutic and Counselling Choice - An appeal to a Provisional Standard One Outcome was lodged and part upheld. The decision has been referred to an Accreditation Panel for consideration. Impact Assessment: (October 2024) - Status: (August 2024)

The Health Practice Associates Council - Standard one provisionally met - Status: (February 2022)

Notifications of changes to an Accredited Register

The National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) - Relationship Therapist (RT) register, Psychosexual and Relationship Therapist (PT) sub-register - Status: (July 2023)

The National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) - Children and Young People Therapists (CYPTs) / Person-Centred Experiential Therapists (PCETs) - Status: (March 2022)

The Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (RCCP) - Clinical Exercise Physiologists (CEPs) - Status: (August 2021)

Register of Clinical Technologists Standard 1 report.  We found that the public interest test was met. In the case of Sonographers, our Accreditation Panel also determined that the risks appear sufficiently high, and potential impacts on patient safety sufficiently great, to recommend that the four UK governments should consider whether accredited registration provides sufficient assurance or whether additional regulatory oversight might be needed - Status: (August 2024) 

Decisions not to accredit

National Council of Integrative Psychotherapy