The JCCP's current position on future education and training standards/competencies and routes to qualification

The JCCP recently commissioned a Task and Finish Group to review these standards and to make proposals on how aesthetic practitioners should be prepared to evidence their compliance with forthcoming DHSC licensing standards (relating to requisite knowledge, practical competence and professional behaviours). The JCCP Task and Finish Group was independently Chaired by Juliet Anderson (until recently Operations Director with Health Education England – South East Region). Our aim was not to rewrite the current 2018 JCCP/CPSA competency standards at this time, but to seek opinion on whether the current standards are still ‘fit for purpose’ and to undertake a ‘gap analysis’ of the current 2018 standards that we consider should be reflected in our proposals to revise the standards in association with the DHSC ‘industry’ standards when they are crafted in 2025, as part of the proposed government licensing scheme for the non-surgical sector in England.

Members of the Task and Finish Group reviewed the 2018 JCCP/CPSA Competency Framework and provided feedback on the relevance and ‘fitness’ of these standards for adoption in the post-licensing era in England (and in the other three UK nations, subject to agreement with the relevant devolved Government Departments). In accordance with this aim, the Task and Finish Group gave consideration to potential new ‘modality’ specific standards that will need to be developed next year following the government's determination regarding which ‘licensable’ procedures will be included in their proposed ‘Green’, ‘Amber’ and Red’ categories.