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We’re consulting on proposed changes to our standards of education and training (SETs) which are designed to protect the public, by ensuring the quality of education and training programmes for the 15 health and care professions that we regulate.

This guidance is intended to help you understand how we use data in our education quality assurance work and to set some context to help you engage with our requirements and requests

This year we're asking you to provide extra evidence to show how your programme has monitored practice-based learning and the involvement of service users and carers

We have produced an information sheet for education providers to enable consideration of our regulatory requirements and standards when developing in this area.

We emailed education providers due their performance review in 2023-24 in late June. Providers who will undergo the process this year (2023-24) will have been given specific requirements and a key contact to work with at the HCPC.

Applicants who apply through our international route will now need to map their qualifications, experience, and training against our standards, in a standards of proficiency mapping document.

We emailed education providers due their performance review in 2025-26 in late June. Providers who will undergo the process this year (2025-26) will have been given specific requirements and a key contact to work with at the HCPC.

As an HCPC-registered practitioner, one of your responsibilities is to be alert to public safety risks, breaches of legislation and wrongdoing

Updates on our quality assurance model and reflections on the achievements and challenges. 

We have produced a document for education providers who are considering running a new programme where learners are also employers of partner organisations.

We recognise there have been calls from across the education and health sectors to reduce unnecessary regulatory burden and overlap.