A professional milestone (again, sort of)
13th January 2026 I’ve been approved for (the new) Senior Accredited Registrant membership (SNCPS Acc.). After effectively losing Senior Accreditation with the BACP, along with many other Senior practitioners ahead of the SCoPEd changes, the process with the NCPS was very hard work but fair. I joined the NCPS in April this year, as an existing Senior Accredited member of the BACP, one week before the BACP demoted me to Accredited member status at my membership renewal date. I value that the NCPS gave existing Senior Accredited members the opportunity to reapply for this new "Column C" aligned Senior Accreditation, free of charge, before the SCoPEd transition period ended. It was incredibly hard work and I spent somewhere around 150 hours on it. It was an application that had to demonstrate robust, Masters-level academic rigour. I didn't go to University. At 17 I bailed out of first year A levels feeling utterly rudderless. I was studying Biology, Chemistry and Sociology ...