CPD - Continuing Professional Development

As part of its remit within ConstructionSkills and in conjunction with the involvement of its Member Institutions, CIC has completed a project to help advance the importance of Continuing Professional Development across the sector.

The project is primarily centered on the empowering of individuals to adopt a more meaningful approach to CPD and helping to provide the guidance to facilitate this.

As a result of industry surveys and consultation with professional bodies, the project identified a combination of factors that impinge on CPD practice including: changing needs in this fast-moving industry; recognition of the need to address skills shortages and gaps identified by sector employers; recognition by professional bodies of the difficulties involved in implementing CPD; capacity problems experienced by employers in developing staff; and the perceptions of many professional practitioners about what constitutes ‘CPD’ and that CPD is an ‘obligation’ and a ‘chore’. Clearly, a key point about CPD is whether people actually do it and whether it is effective and valued.

CPD Best Practice Guidance

The following CPD guidance documents are a result of the project described above:

Continuing Professional Development – Best Practice Guidance (full document)

The following document defines CPD, outlines the key benefits to different stakeholders and then makes suggestions for how this could be made more useful.

Continuing Professional Development – Best Practice Guidance for Professionals (leaflet)

Continuing Professional Development - Best Practice Guidance for Employers

EUSCCCIP (Europroject for the Use of Standards of Competence in CPD for Construction Industry Practitioners) - a framework for CPD systems for practitioners in the construction industry

Published March 1998 this document provides a framework for good practice from which organisations and individuals working in the construction industries of European countries, can develop their own CPD policies and practices. The framework is intended to provide the benchmark for CPD and includes all the components needed for a good CPD system .

To view the summary project document, please click here.

To view the full guidance document, please click here.