Registers accredited by the Professional Standards Authority
Alliance of Private Sector Practitioners - withdrew from accreditation
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The Alliance promotes foot health practitioners working in the private sector and supports safe delivery of service to the public through accredited registration, education, and skill-enhancement. The Alliance has withdrawn from the programme.
The Alliance has withdrawn from the Accredited Registers programme as of 31 March 2024. This was prior to publication of the outcome of the Alliance's full renewal assessment in July 2024.
You can read the renewal decision as well as our impact assessment.
When we completed our assessment we issued the following Conditions. We will consider how the Alliance has addressed these in any future re-application to the Accredited Registers programme.
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| Standard 2 | 1. The Alliance must develop and publish ‘clear, published processes for all routes to registration’ for the benefit of applicants and anyone wishing to understand the register’s entry and renewal requirements.
2. The Alliance must develop and publish mechanisms to ensure that applicants meet its registration requirements (including those set for education and training) and registrants continue to do so.
3. The Alliance must develop and publish a clear appeal process so that those applying to a register can appeal registration decisions.
4. The Alliance must develop and publish processes for recognising decisions regarding professional conduct made by regulatory bodies, and other registers, when deciding whether a person should be admitted to the register. |
| Standard 3 | 5. The Alliance Rulebook must explicitly include registrants’ Duty of Candour to their clients.
6. The Alliance must develop and publish its policy for handling safeguarding concerns, including signposting to appropriate resources and authorities.
7. The Alliance must set requirements for registrants to have procedures for considering complaints and escalating to the Alliance where necessary.
8. The Alliance must develop and publish mechanisms to check that registrants hold indemnity cover. |
| Standard 4 | 9. The Alliance must develop and publish mechanisms to ensure that registrants are equipped to care for a diverse population through their education and training requirements. |
| Standard 5 | 10. The Alliance must ensure that adjudication of complaints is separate from its governance. This must include separation from its Ethics Committee members.
11. The Alliance must ensure that decision makers in complaints processes are not involved in multiple stages of the same complaint.
12. The Alliance should document processes for recruitment, training, including relevant EDI training, and ongoing monitoring of those key decision makers in disciplinary processes.
13. The Alliance must develop and document ‘Indicative Sanctions Guidance’ or other mechanisms to ensure that complaints outcomes are fair, proportionate and consistent.
14. The Alliance must document its process for Quality Assurance of decisions, including use of the Ethics Committee.
15. The Alliance must document its Interim Orders process to make clear that those orders may be issued at earlier stages, and make clear what these involve, such as periodic review or appeal.
16. The Alliance should develop and publish mechanisms for triaging whether concerns require escalation from informal or mediated outcomes to formal disciplinary procedures.
17. The Alliance must develop and publish its Publications Policy for outcomes, clearly setting out where and for how long complaints outcomes will be displayed. |
| Standard 6 | 18. The Alliance must clearly separate the management of register functions, education and training provision, and professional body activities. It using its Ethics Committee to achieve this, the Alliance must document and publish mechanisms to manage real or perceived conflicts of interest effectively.
19. The Alliance must develop contingency plans for the continued operations and leadership of the register should the current Directors and Registrar leave their roles. These should include how the Alliance will ensure that persons named in the succession plan are equipped for each role.
20. The Alliance must seek to achieve diversity in the composition of its senior leadership, Board and Committee members.
21. The Alliance must develop a clear and documented mechanism to assist management of organisational risks. |
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