The Federation believes supervision helps set the standard in our industry and if it is applied wrongly then it will take us nowhere.

Supervision is simply a relationship between senior and junior members of our industry and helps enhance the skills of the junior person, and monitors the quality of the services offered. Currently, the Board are consulting on supervision, but the Act already states WHAT supervision is and WHO can do it.

Supervision means that the work is undertaken under the control and direction of a person authorised under this Act to do the work. We believe the Board does not have the statutory authority to change this definition. This consultation seems to be targeted at the issue of Licensed Practitioners trading in the industry under the control and direction of Certifiers. This is a problem created by the qualifications regime and highlights the issue of “Licensing” being a partial qualification where a large number of practitioners stop, or are unable to continue on to Certifying status.

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