Sector-by-sector accreditation for training providers, coaches, event organisers, and employers. The CPD Group accredits learning across every UK industry — with the rigour each sector demands.
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The CPD Group provides CPD accreditation for training providers, coaches, event organisers, and employers across all professional industries and sectors. Whether you deliver learning in healthcare, financial services, construction, technology, legal, HR, or any other field, The CPD Group's accreditation confirms that your activities meet recognised professional development standards and qualifies delegates to earn verifiable CPD credits.
This page provides an overview of CPD accreditation in the major professional sectors that The CPD Group works with. For training providers, understanding the sector-specific context of CPD is important for positioning your accredited activities to the professional audiences most likely to need them. The CPD Group is the first and only UK accreditation body certified by The CPD Register, and works with over 13,000 approved providers across every sector below.
Healthcare is one of the most CPD-intensive sectors in the UK. Doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, allied health professionals, and health and social care workers all have CPD obligations set by their respective regulatory bodies. For training providers delivering healthcare CPD, accreditation from The CPD Group confirms that courses and learning activities meet the quality standards required for healthcare professionals' revalidation and regulatory CPD records.
The CPD Group accredits healthcare training courses, clinical skills workshops, patient safety programmes, compliance and governance training, professional development webinars, and healthcare conferences. Accredited activities are listed on The CPD Register and delegates receive verifiable CPD certificates for their revalidation portfolios.
Legal CPD is a significant and growing market in the UK. Solicitors, barristers, legal executives, and licensed conveyancers all require ongoing professional development. For legal training providers, CPD accreditation from The CPD Group adds independent quality assurance to courses covering areas such as employment law, regulatory updates, practice management, client care, risk management, and legal technology.
The CPD Group accredits face-to-face legal CPD seminars, online legal training courses, law firm webinars, and legal sector conferences. Accredited legal CPD is listed on The CPD Register, allowing solicitors and other legal professionals to verify and log their learning.
Financial services professionals operate in one of the most heavily regulated CPD environments in the UK. FCA requirements, combined with the CPD frameworks of bodies including ACCA, CIMA, the Chartered Insurance Institute, and the Chartered Banker Institute, create significant demand for quality-assured financial services CPD. The CPD Group accredits compliance training, regulatory update programmes, technical finance courses, investment and wealth management CPD, and insurance sector training.
Human resources and learning and development professionals have their own CPD requirements through CIPD membership, as well as a natural professional interest in quality-assured development. The CPD Group accredits HR-focused training covering employment law, talent management, recruitment and selection, diversity and inclusion, wellbeing, performance management, and coaching skills. L&D professionals who deliver training can also apply for trainer accreditation to carry a recognised personal credential.
The technology sector demands continuous upskilling. Cybersecurity, data science, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, software development, and digital transformation are all areas where professionals need structured, current learning. The CPD Group accredits technology CPD courses, IT certification preparation programmes, cybersecurity awareness training, and digital skills development for professionals across all levels of seniority.
Free Provider registration. Per-activity assessment against the A.C.C.R.E.D.I.T.E.D Framework.
Chartered engineers, surveyors, building services professionals, and construction managers all require structured CPD. The CPD Group accredits technical update courses, health and safety training, building regulations and standards programmes, sustainability and net zero courses, and leadership development for engineering and construction professionals.
Teachers, lecturers, education leaders, and training professionals themselves benefit from CPD accreditation. The CPD Group accredits teaching methodology courses, safeguarding and child protection training, SEND provision development, school leadership programmes, and continuing education for further and higher education professionals.
Executive coaching, life coaching, business coaching, and career coaching are significant professional development activities. The CPD Group accredits coaching programmes as CPD activities, enabling coaching clients to earn CPD credits for their sessions. Individual coaches can also apply for trainer accreditation to carry a personal CPD Group credential, providing clients with independent assurance of their professional standing.
The CPD Group accredits training and learning activities across all professional sectors, including marketing and communications, media and publishing, real estate and property, facilities management, logistics and supply chain, environmental and sustainability, social care, charity and not-for-profit, and many more. If your sector is not listed, contact the team at thecpd.group/contact-cpd — we accredit learning across all industries.
Every activity assessed individually against the A.C.C.R.E.D.I.T.E.D Framework. Listed on The CPD Register. Recognised across every UK professional sector.