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

National constituencies

EPSC Meetings 

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