Business Compliance

ARB now requires every architect to record CPD to stay registered, with two mandatory topics. RIBA Chartered Members need 35 hours, 20 on the Core Curriculum, plus the Health and Safety test.

Retail investment advisers need 35 hours of CPD a year, 21 structured, verified annually through a Statement of Professional Standing. Mortgage and insurance rules differ, and the 15-hour GI requirement ended in December 2025.

Self-managing landlords in Wales must complete approved training to be licensed. England requires none. The rules in each nation, plus the safety duties that apply wherever you let.

Charities have no CPD scheme, but trustees must take reasonable steps to protect people from harm. What the Charity Commission expects, the duties owed to volunteers, and a proportionate training plan.

The CIPD sets no CPD hours but requires three CPD records a year and audits a random sample of members. What passes an audit, how to write a record, and the legal duties HR should cover.

No statutory CPD for estate agents in England, but a real AML training duty supervised by HMRC, and a 20-hours-in-three-years training rule for letting agents in Scotland.

Solicitors have had no CPD hours requirement since November 2016. What continuing competence asks for, the strengthened renewal declaration, and the obligations that sit outside legal knowledge.

There is no single accountant CPD requirement. ACCA’s 40-unit route, ICAEW’s three categories, CIMA’s outcome-based approach, and the separate AML training duty under the Money Laundering Regulations.

No law sets CPD hours for assessors or internal quality assurers. The difference between the regulated qualification and CPD, the two kinds of CPD you must keep, and what an external quality assurer checks.

The Money Laundering Regulations do not say AML training must be annual – Regulation 24 says ‘regularly’. Who is in scope, what the training must cover, and why the written training record is a legal duty in its own right.