CPD Requirements

What is CPD?

Rapidly changing legal, social and economic developments directly affect our working environment while technological advances radically change the way we carry out everyday tasks.

CPD (Continuing Professional Development) is an ongoing commitment to understand more about the environment in which you work, the job you do and how you can do it better.

CPD can be part of your own strategy to be a better practitioner or to simply feel more confident about your work and make it more personally fulfilling. It can be a step on the ladder to higher qualifications or enhanced career prospects. It can be part of meeting targets set by workforce performance management schemes or an opportunity for you to change and advance your career path.

Why is CPD important?

It is important for members to undertake CPD for a number of reasons:

• To improve your professional competence for your own benefit and that of your clients, employers and others.
• To enable you to demonstrate how you have sought to maintain your competence in the event of a claim or allegation.

You are most likely to be able to demonstrate that you have complied with the Society’s CPD Regulation if you plan, carry out and record an annual programme of learning activities designed to maintain competence and improve professional knowledge. It may be more difficult for you to demonstrate compliance if you choose another method.

New CPD Framework Launches Jan 2023

Throughout 2022, SCSI have run a pilot CPD Framework programme with a group of Members.  The Framework has been very well received by the pilot group too as, while it ensures compliance with all existing CPD requirements for both SCSI and RICS, it also provides a supportive structure to ensure that learning is relevant and builds on professional competencies that originate with the APC.

For 2023, our current CPD requirements remain unchanged:

From January 2023, it is recommended that Members use the new CPD Framework to structure, plan and execute CPD throughout the coming year.

Further detail on the framework is included in this guidance document including definitions of formal CPD, informal CPD and non-CPD activities along with a summary of the competencies relevant to all pathways.

From January 2024, the Framework will be incorporated into compulsory CPD requirements and will also form part of SCSI’s annual CPD audit processes.

* Please note that Panel members that are included and act on the Society’s Dispute Resolution Panels are required to undertake and record an additional 10 hours per calendar year, specifically related to the field of dispute resolution.

CPD Regulation and Guidance

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) — Regulation and Guidance

The Council and Board of Directors of the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland have recently approved new regulations in respect of members obligations with regard to continuing professional development (CPD). The new regulationsare aligned with the RICS as well as having regard to the requirements of the Registration Body and the Property Services Regulatory Authority.

The Society’s CPD Regulation is as follows:

Members of the Professional Body the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland are obliged always to comply with the CPD Rule of Conduct, Rule 2.5:

“Members shall plan, undertake, record and evaluate appropriate continuing professional development in accordance with the CPD Policy and, on request, provide the Society with evidence that they have done so in accordance with the Society's CPD Policy and in accordance with Part 5 of these Rules."

CPD Mandatory Requirements/Policy

It is a mandatory requirement for all members to use the SCSI MyCPD online recording tool to record their CPD activities.

All members must record 20 hours CPD per calendar year in accordance with the Society's CPD Policy - New CPD minimum requirements with effect from 1st January 2018.

The CPD Calendar year runs from 1^st January to 31^st December each year and surplus CPD hours cannot be carried over into the next year.

Audit Process

100% of Members CPD records are audited for compliance on an annual basis.

Members have until 31^st January of each year to upload any outstanding records to MyCPD in preparation for audit by the Regulation Department.

SCSI/RICS Dual Members:  SCSI monitor the CPD records of dual members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors on their behalf.

Disciplinary Action 

Part 5 of the Society Members Professional Conduct Rules, Monitoring and Investigation Procedures, Disciplinary Rules and Procedures sets out the policy and procedures to be followed by the Director of Regulation in regulating the CPD Policy

Publication for breaching CPD Policy

The Sanctions Policy section 3 Publication of Regulatory/Disciplinary Matters paragraph 2.2 states:

“Where a Member has breached the CPD Policy on two occasions, within a five-year period, as provided for in Rule 5.2, the Society will publish on the Society’s website a list of members who are non-compliant for a second time. This publication to remain on the website for a period of one year from imposition of sanction”.

Recording Your CPD

All CPD and Life long Learning is self recorded and self certified. To assist you in obtaining and recording your CPD requirement, the Society provides:

• An array of CPD and Training offerings for all members, viewable on the Society calendar
• Personal Development Planner ,which can be used as a too to record your CPD and Training records
• CPD and Training Resource centre, where you can access CPD notes, presentations and video recordings. to assist you in recording your CPD requirement.