This Preliminary Investigation of Complaints training programme for Professional Regulators covers the following areas:
- The role of the screening committee in fitness to practice complaints
- Relevant legislative provisions including changes introduced by the Regulated Professions (Health and Care (Amendment Act) 2020
- The composition of the Investigating Committee
- What acting in the public interest means and what that involves at the preliminary investigation stage
- The procedures
- The meaning of frivolous, vexatious, without substance or made in bad faith
- The importance of promptly identifying cases that may warrant referral for an application for immediate suspension
- What prima facie means
- Application of the threshold to determine whether a complaint meets the prima facie standard
- Determining the relevant grounds of referral to a fitness to practice inquiry where there are prima facie findings
- Applying the proper statutory criteria to decisions/opinions
- Writing clear and good rationale
- Understanding the rights of the registrant at this stage of the complaints process
- Potential legal challenges – the grounds for a judicial review application including the principles of natural justice
- Relevant case-law and legal updates
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