We are encouraging licence holders to think about how the various learning activities they have done could count towards their Ongoing Competency hours.

 

Many licence holders will have already obtained Ongoing Competency hours by attending formal training events, seminars or paid-for webinars and online-training. There are lots of different ways that Ongoing Competency hours can be counted. We are encouraging individuals and their employers to think about events in their day-to-day work that can contribute to Ongoing Competency hours, such as, in-house training sessions, providing or received mentoring and coaching. Record any information sessions or workshops that your employer has hosted on a specific legal-related topic, such as AML.

 

Just remember, it’s important to keep a record of these types of Ongoing Competency events, including the date, the duration and of course, the topic and how it contributed to your professional knowledge and skills.

You may want to be talking to your employers now to ask them to make sure they are helping you reflect on any past learning events that can be recorded towards your annual Ongoing Competency hours. If they have a log of in-house events that have been delivered, be that topic-briefings, policy updates or in-house training on compliance issues, these can all be used to evidence your CPD.

 

While the CLC does expect you to fulfil your Ongoing Competency requirements, we do not expect you to be having to do this just through commercially provided training.