The Importance of Registration

About NRCPD The National Registers of Communication Professionals working with Deaf and Deafblind People We hold registers of: interpreters for deafblind people, lipspeakers, notetakers, sign language interpreters, sign language translators and speech to text reporters We call registered professionals 'Registrants' We also regulate people who are training. They are 'Regulated trainees'

Our Role NRCPD exists to protect the public Our aim is to safeguard the people who rely on the services of communication and language professionals We work with public and private organisations to ensure more of them use Registered professionals.

The importance of Registration It is important that organisations and individuals use Registrants for face to face and video interpreting Why? We ensure Registrants: Are qualified and properly trained Declare to abide by the Code of Conduct Are subject to a complaints process Continue to develop their skills

NRCPD is a voluntary register nobody has to be registered. We think communication and language professionals should be regulated by law Statutory regulation is our long term aim

Code of Conduct This is what we expect of our registrants and it helps protect the public They have to do what the Code of Conduct says they must do If they don't their client or a member of the public can make a complaint

Confidentiality Part of the Code of Conduct Registrants must respect the confidential nature of information they gain The nature of video interpreting means this is particularly important Service providers and individuals must ensure privacy

Best Practice Last week ASLI published best practice guidelines for video interpreting ASLI is a professional body. Separate from NRCPD but promotes importance of registration ASLI supports and develops interpreters practices Guidelines have been developed as video interpreting is a specialist and challenging area

Guidelines are for both service providers and individual interpreters 12 guidelines including: The importance of using qualified and Registered interpreters for video interpreting Assessing the suitability of video interpreting Protecting confidentiality

NRCPD welcomes the guidelines They will contribute to the quality of service video interpreting users receive