The PFEW has launched an accreditation programme for Federation Reps, in partnership with the Open University.<\/p>\n
Due to launch in the Autumn, the course will offer a fully accredited Level 7 Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Professional Practice.<\/p>\n
And South Yorkshire Police Federation Chair Steve Kent said the new course was a good way to formally recognise the skills of Reps.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt’s right that the experience and the skills that our Reps use in negotiating in complex discipline cases and equality cases particularly, are recognised.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a good thing for us to do. It also helps the professionalising of the PFEW, which is in everyone’s interests.\u201d<\/p>\n