JCCP registers will go live next month

The Joint Council for Cosmetic Practitioners (JCCP) has announced that its Practitioner Register and Register of Approved Training Providers will go live on March 1, 2018. This will follow the official launch of both the JCCP and the Cosmetic Practice Standards Authority (CPSA) at the House of Lords on February 22.

The new CPSA practice standards for the non-surgical cosmetic and hair restoration surgery sector are also to be published and endorsed by the JCCP this month. These standards build on work undertaken previously by Health Education England that was approved by the Department of Health and published in February, 2016. The JCCP will adopt these standards and use the same in conjunction with its own complementary Education Standards to establish and implement the entry requirements to the JCCP Practitioner Register.

The practice and educational standards and competencies will also inform the publication of a new framework of benchmark standards that will underpin the establishment of the JCCP Register of Approved Education and Training Providers. The entry requirements and processes for seeking approval for entry to this register are currently being ‘tested’ with a selected range of education/training organisations.

JCCP chair, professor David Sines said, “It is an incredible honour to be able to launch the JCCP after what is in effect four years of consistent and consolidated work undertaken by multiple stakeholders, who together have worked tirelessly to co-design the council’s governance and operating systems and to assist in setting standards to assist in the regulation of the non-surgical cosmetic and hair restoration sector.”