Petition: HPC must think again. State reg of psy practice does not protect the public.

Nick Totton, Andrew Samuels, Allison Priestman, Denis Postle, Arthur Musgrave, Guy Gladstone, Kevin Jones have created a petition which now has 1226 signatures. Below is the text from the petition page, click the title of this blog entry to go to the petiton.

[Since launching the petition, we have been in touch with UKCP, BACP and BPC, as well as with the Health Professions Council, pointing out that large numbers of practitioners have signed up including many members of the big organisations, and suggesting that a poll of all therapists and counsellors needs to take place to find out whether state regulation has their support. So far only the HPC has responded, and we are setting up a meeting. If you want your professional organisation to poll its members on state regulation, then let them know! By the way, we are also aware of the double 'and' in the petition, but for obvious reasons we are not allowed to edit the text while the petition is 'live'. - Nick Totton, Andrew Samuels, Allison Priestman, Denis Postle, Arthur Musgrave, Guy Gladstone, Kevin Jones]


To: UK Government and Health Professions Council
We the undersigned psychotherapists and counsellors doubt that the proposed state regulation of psychotherapy and counselling in the UK will be of benefit either to the public or to the profession, and are concerned that it will in fact be harmful; we do not wish to be regulated in this way, and and call upon the Government and the leadership of our professions to halt the proc