New Accreditation Programme For Fed Reps

The PFEW has launched an accreditation programme for Federation Reps, in partnership with the Open University.

Due to launch in the Autumn, the course will offer a fully accredited Level 7 Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Professional Practice.

And South Yorkshire Police Federation Chair Steve Kent said the new course was a good way to formally recognise the skills of Reps.

He said: “It’s right that the experience and the skills that our Reps use in negotiating in complex discipline cases and equality cases particularly, are recognised.

“It really is a skill to be a Fed Rep, and to be an active Fed Rep, because you are managing competing demands and you’re managing all sorts of different nuances.

“So it’s quite right that those skills are recognised, and people can use those skills for the aspects of their career and within their lives. I fully support this.

“It’s a good thing for us to do. It also helps the professionalising of the PFEW, which is in everyone’s interests.”