Continual Professional Development (CPD) is a vital part of the registration of the profession going forward, both for individuals and for teams. The Registered Building Inspector (RBI) Code of Conduct will require individuals to maintain records of and provide evidence of their CPD. The Operational Standards Rules (OSRs) will require employers to make appropriate CPD available to their staff and keep records of this. This will potentially be expensive, time consuming and yet another burden on already stretched resources.

LABC has created a new monitoring and recording portal, myLABC , to help individual members and managers meet these new obligations.

All local authorities will, as part of their current subscription, continue to receive access to the Virtual Learning Environment and will be able to manually upload any CPD they undertake.

Members who elect to subscribe to myLABC will receive an individual log-in, a bespoke tailored calendar of CPD and events based on their work profile. RBI’s will also be able to identify personal training needs and skills gaps identified from their validation assessment (e.g. feedback from the BSCF) with all CPD itemised against the BICoF core competencies and work profile. myLABC will deliver monthly prompts about available resources, unlimited access to courses and learning material, and, perhaps most usefully, an automatic log of all CPD undertaken. This can then be used as evidence for other Competence Assessment Schemes as well as annual CPD returns for Professional Bodies. You’ll never have to remember, evidence, and upload a year’s worth of CPD records again.

Of most interest to managers, is a new dashboard of their surveyor’s learning activity. The VLE will help support performance appraisal and goal setting and automatically generate KPI data for the BSRs OSR Monitoring of teams. This will save many hours of work every year as well as the need to develop manual systems of recording and reporting.

The licence for full access to the system including monthly targeted CPD is £130 per surveyor per annum (£65 / half year) for surveyors in English and Welsh member authorities.

Annual subscriptions run from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025. You can view our T&C's here.

If you have any questions about accessing myLABC please contact the team at mylabc@labc.co.uk.