Voluntary Registers

Voluntary Registers

Accreditation Scheme for Assured Voluntary Registers

Our new role - raising standards for better care

In November 2012 CHRE will be renamed the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care. We will also launch our new accreditation scheme for voluntary registers.

We will set standards for organisations that hold voluntary registers for people working in a variety of health and social care occupations.

Organisations will be able to apply to us for accreditation of their register. We will publish a list of accredited registers on our website and will allow them to use our ‘quality mark’ on their literature and their website to help show that they are accredited by us.

This means that employers, commissioners and members of the public will be able to choose to use people in health and social care who are on a register of an organisation that has been assessed by us and accredited.

Read more here.

Click here for Frequently Asked Questions.

You might also like to read our earlier discussion papers.

Give us your views

Read our consultation paper here.

Who this will apply to

Over 40 organisations have been working with us to develop our scheme. Many of them have told us that they intend to apply. Click here for a list of the organisations.