Institute of Continuing Professional Development

The Institute of Continuing Professional Development (ICPD, or CPD Institute) is an institute concerned with continuing professional development (CPD) in the United Kingdom.[1] It provides CPD qualifications.[2]

The institute has defined CPD to be:

a process by which a professional person maintains the quality and relevance of professional services throughout his/her life.[3]

The ICPD is part of The Harris Foundation for Lifelong Learning (previously the Continuing Professional Development Foundation),[4] an educational non-profit charitable trust that has provided CPD since 1981, based in London, England.[5] The institute has corporate affiliates.[6] A Fellow of the institute can use the post-nominal FInstCPD. In 2008, a new "Member" grade was launched.[7]

  1. ^ The Institute of Continuing Professional Development, [1].
  2. ^ Kogan Page (2006). British Qualifications: Professional, Vocational and Academic Qualifications in the UK. Kogan Page Publishers. p. 789. ISBN 978-0-7494-4484-6.
  3. ^ Auldeen Alsop (2000). Continuing Professional Development: A Guide for Therapists. Wiley. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-632-05007-9.
  4. ^ Companies House – The Harris Foundation for Lifelong Learning
  5. ^ Continuing Professional Development Foundation.
  6. ^ Corporate Affiliates of The Institute of Continuing Professional Development, Edge NLP, UK, 4 September 2010.
  7. ^ CPD Institute launches new Member grade Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Training Journal, 14 January 2008.