There is life after CPD.  Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is changing and moving away from the "buy points to licence regime," into a regime of identified and necessary training. This will help with the transfer of necessary information to protect the tradespeople in the industry, which in turn will protect the public

TradePoint information has been making the rounds and a few people seem confused about who TradePoint is. TradePoint is an initiative by Master Plumbers to help with training everyone in industry. Master Plumbers have been driving the development of TradePoint with input from the Federation and others. Tradepoint has been funded with money which was held by Skills for the benefit of industry. The money was left over after the amalgamation of the old ITO into Skills and had a limit on how long it was to be held for. Master Plumbers, supported by the Federation, took the initiative to develop a skills centre for the industry.

Authorised practitioners get held accountable if things go wrong and also have to fund the prosecution of the public if they choose to do their own sanitary plumbing gasfitting or drainlaying. So is this a fair situation, because as tradespeople we are paying to hold these people accountable. Who is educating them on the do's and don'ts not only to do with their own safety, but also about what they can and can't do in regards to sanitary plumbing, gasfitting and drainlaying?




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