Rejected petition BACP Membership Changes - Students

More details

The BACP have 'retrospectively' changed the membership criteria for new members - anyone applying for membership must have completed a minimum of 100 supervised placement hours. This has impacted on any student currently studying on a course where the placement hours are less than 100.

Current students who are in their final year and finished at the end of June 2013 will not have the opportunity to attain 100 hours due to time restrictions.

Current students entered into an agreement (funding themselves following the governments change in education funding) that 60 hours would be the expectation.

The BACP changes are 'in the interests of public safety' (Therapy Today, April 2013) a result of government direction in order to further regulate the profession?
We would ask that the government urge the BACP to apply the changes on 1st July 2014. To enable current students to complete the course on the current criteria and still be able to join the BACP.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 15 May 2013
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.