Registration Boards
There will be an individual Registration Board established for each regulated professions.
The objective of each Board is to protect the public by fostering high standards of professional conduct, professional education, training and competence among those registered.
The Registration Boards at CORU will assume statutory responsibility for the assessment, approval and monitoring of training courses for the health and social care professions under the Act; establishing the code of professional conduct and ethics and standards of performance to which registrants must adhere. The Board will also be designated Competent Authority and will be responsible for recognition of international qualifications.
They will:
- Establish and maintain the register for that designated profession
- Issue certificates of registration
- Give guidance regarding ethical conduct
- Give guidance to professionals on continuing professional development
- Approve education and training programmes
- Monitor the continuing suitability of programmes approved for the education and training of applicants for registration
- Make recommendations to Council re sanctions to be imposed on registrants
Each Board will have the power to make bye-laws governing:
- Application for registration
- Qualifications approved for the purpose of registration as attesting to the standard of proficiency required for registration
- Procedures for assessing qualifications, training or experience acquired outside of Ireland
- The conditions for registration in a division of the Register
- Criteria for restoration to the register
- Education, training and continuing professional development
- Adoption and revision of a code of professional conduct and ethics
