Mandatory CPD to end?

Prescribed CPD (continuing professional development) requirements would be made a thing of the past under the latest Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) proposals. Instead, non-mandatory guidance would be issued to both entities and individuals.  In a consultation launched this week, Training for tomorrow, the SRA emphasised that CPD is central to securing good outcomes for consumers, and that the aim of the proposed reform would be to ensure “continuing competence”. Julie Brannan, SRA director of education and training, says the SRA hope to increase firms’ flexibility in arranging their training needs. The consultation closes on 2 April 2014.