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If your application is deferred, you have up to six months to submit additional information.Ìý

What does a deferred decision mean?

If you've been deferred, it means our assessors didn't find sufficient evidence within your application to successfully assess against all our criteria and we need more information from you.Ìý

Your assessment report will tell you which criteria haven't been fully met and provide information from the assessor on what you need to do to meet those criteria when you resubmit.

If you don't make a resubmission within six months, your application will be closed. You can reapply for accreditation at any time, but you'll need to complete a new application in full.

How do I prepare my resubmission?

Take some time to read your assessment report and review the feedback from the assessor.

You only need to address the criteria which you were deferred on in your original application.

We also recommend that you speak to your supervisor before you start to write.

Write your additional information on a blank Word document. Head each document with your name and membership number and identify which criterion and sub-criteria the information relates to. Please use one document and make it clear which criteria you are writing under.Ìý

The work you submit is in addition to your original application, so you might just need to provide some further explanation or new information. However, it’s fine to revise parts of your original work too - just keep within the additional word limits and make it clear where the new information fits within the text.

Word limits

In your resubmission you can use the full word limits again, regardless of how many sub-criteria you've been deferred on. This is in addition to any material you presented in your original application. A full explanation of word counts is listed in the downloadable resubmission guides on the right-hand side of this web page.Ìý

If you’re deferred, you’ll receive a resubmission cover sheet, assessment report and the appropriate resubmission guide, which will be emailed to you with your deferral information.

Submitting new case material

If the criteria you’ve been deferred on is a case study, you can either update the case material you originally submitted, provide additional information on the case study, or submit entirely new client or case material. (By new case material, we mean a different client in the case study to the one you used in your initial application).

If you choose to submit new case material, you’ll need to ask the supervisor who oversaw the case material to provide a confirmation statement in support of your resubmission. You can find a template for this on the right-hand side of this page.

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Supervision arrangements

If you’ve changed your Supervisor since you submitted your original application, please provide details of the new arrangement on the resubmission coversheet.

How do I submit my resubmission?

In the email you receive when your application is deferred, you received a Resubmission Cover Sheet.  

Please fill this out, and return it, with the additional information you are sending us.  

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Cost of resubmission

There is no fee for a resubmission.

Can I get any help with my resubmission?Ìý

Your assessment report will include advice from our assessors on what you need to do when writing or producing your resubmission. You can also refer to the application guides associated with your original accreditation application.

If you have any questions about your resubmission, please contact the accreditation team at accreditation@bacp.co.uk

Additional support

If you identify as living with a disability, long term health condition or learning difference, we can offer additional support to help remove any barriers you may experience when accessing the application process.  

If you were offered an additional 10% word count with your original application, you can use this again for your resubmission. 

If you’d like to access additional support, please contact accreditation@bacp.co.uk to discuss your needs with our Support and Inclusion Officer. 

Telesurgeries

Our assessors run regular telesurgeries for deferred applicants. These are 30 minute one-to-one phone conversations which give you the opportunity to ask an assessor specific questions about what they want to see in a successful application. They'll also be able to explain any points raised on your assessment report. However, the assessor can't tell you what to write or approve any suggestions of what you intend to write.

Telesurgeries cost £25 and book up very quickly so you may have a short wait for a convenient session. Please email accreditation@bacp.co.uk or call us on 01455 883300 to book.

We can only allow one telesurgery per member per application.

What happens if I don't want to resubmit?

Some applicants decide the best way forward is to spend more time on client work, additional training, reflecting on their practice and consolidating their skills, which may take longer than six months. This is absolutely fine, as you can reapply at any time, but this will be treated as an entirely new application.

Assessment process and outcomes

When you submit your resubmission, we'll send you an acknowledgement email to confirm we've received it. It can then take around three to four months to complete the accreditation process.

We'll check to make sure you've responded to all the deferred criteria and provided all the necessary information. We’ll then forward your resubmission, together with your original application, for reassessment.

If you're successful, you'll be awarded your accreditation. If you're unsuccessful, you’ll be given time for reflection. You can make a new application after 12 months from the date of your unsuccessful decision.