The Ethics and Professional Standards Committee

The Ethics and Professional Standards Committee (EPSC) is a standing committee of the CDI.

The committee advises the board on issues concerning professional standards, professional development and ethics. Following agreement at the CDI Annual General Meeting on 8th December 2022, the word Ethics was added to the name of this committee to reflect this important aspect of the committee's work. 

Under the CDI’s constitution, the board must gather feedback from the EPSC regarding any proposed constitutional changes. This ensures input from an ethical and professional standards perspective from across the CDI’s constituencies. 

The EPSC also plays a critical governance role with the maintenance of the Code of Ethics and responsibility for the CDI Complaints and Discipline Procedure.

EPSC members also form the judging panels for the UK Career Development Awards and, with members of the CDI Board, ratify the award of  CDI Fellowships. 

If you wish to raise a matter with the EPSC, contact a relevant constituency member, the EPSC Chair or the Head of Professional Development and Standards, Claire Johnson.

If you wish to raise a disciplinary issue, please follow the guidance on the CDI’s disciplinary procedure.

 

Members of the EPSC 

All members of the EPSC are elected by the membership for a term of three years, renewable once. The EPSC is led by an elected chair and is made up of two representatives for each professional constituency and one representative for each national constituency. 

The chair of the EPSC is also a CDI Board Director and voting member of the CDI.

The CDI’s Head of Professional Development and Standards is a permanent. non-elected member of EPSC and has EPSC voting rights. 

Chair: Vacancy : 

 

 

Professional constituencies

Career education/leadership in schools/college/HE 

Vacancy

 

 

Mark Fox 

 mark.fox@nelep.co.uk

 

Career guidance/coaching in the private sector 

Hannah Courtney-Bennett 

hannah.courtneybennett@btinternet.com

Lisa LaRue 

lisa@careerworx.co.uk

Career guidance/coaching in the public sector, inc. education 

Mark Yates 

mark.yates@thecdi.net

Luisa Moreno 

luisa.moreno@sds.co.uk

Professional development inc. training/research/sector development 

Vacancy

 

Sue Edwards

 s.edwards@hud.ac.uk

Career guidance/coaching in the voluntary/community sector 

Cordelia Wise

cordeliawise@googlemail.com

Vacancy

 

National constituencies

England 

Bella Doswell

 

bella@bdcms.co

Scotland 

Beth Urquhart

beth.urquhart@sds.co.uk

Wales 

Lowri Tett

 lowri.tett@careerswales.gov.wales 

Northern Ireland 

Vacancy

 

EPSC Meetings 

 EPSC meetings are held quarterly and the action notes from previous meetings are shown below. 

PSC 9th April 2014 

PSC 10th July 2014 

PSC 7th December 2014  

PSC 10th February 2015 

PSC 7th April 2015 

PSC 9th June 2015 

PSC 8th September 2015 

PSC 8th December 2015 

PSC 1st March 2016 

PSC 19th April 2016 

PSC 27th September 2016 

PSC 25th January 2017 

PSC 5th June 2017 

PSC 1st November 2017 

PSC 30th January 2018 

PSC 5th June 2018 

PSC 1st November 2018 

PSC 29th January 2019  

PSC 15th May 2019 

PSC 7th November 2019   

PSC 20th February 2020   

PSC 30th June 2020 

 PSC 11th November 2020 

PSC 11th February 2021   

PSC 10th June 2021 

PSC 16th September 2021 

PSC 2nd December 2021

PSC 4th March 2022

 PSC 28th June 2022

PSC 9th September 2022