What is the Delegate Certificate Service (DCS)?

What is the Delegate Certificate Service (DCS)?

What is the Delegate Certificate Service (DCS)?

When a professional has completed either a training course, webinar, educational event or other form of learning, a CPD certificate of attendance provides confirmation that the training has been completed by an individual as part of their Continuing Professional Development requirements at their professional body or association. A CPD certificate of attendance is typically obtained from structured CPD, which is considered formal learning, and includes training courses, workshops, seminars, educational events and online eLearning programs that have been CPD accredited to conform to industry guidelines and standards.

Why is a CPD certificate of attendance important?

A CPD certificate is important as it helps a professional body ensure that an individual has completed an appropriate level of further learning, and they are improving their capabilities in a structured, practical and relevant way for their role and industry.

How does The Delegate Certificate Service (DCS) work?

The Delegate Certificate Service (DCS) has been designed to provide support with issuing CPD Certificates, helping to significantly save on both the time and cost of post-training admin. The Delegate Certificate Service is an additional benefit available to all members of The CPD Certification Service at no extra cost. We currently issue over 500,000+ CPD delegate certificates on behalf of our members each year.

Once a certified training course or event has taken place, you provide us with the attendee details and training information. We can then issue your delegates with a digitally verified CPD certificate of attendance via the myCPD Portal, displaying the relevant training details and CPD hours. CPD certificates feature our recognised 'CPD Certified' trademark, providing confirmation of an individual's undertaken training and can be used towards their annual Continuing Professional Development obligations.

Benefits of using the DCS to issue attendance certificates

There are many benefits to using our Delegate Certificate Service to issue CPD certificates on your behalf. We have listed some key benefits below:
  1. It’s an unlimited service - The CPD Certification Service can provide an unlimited number of certificates for your training activities. It doesn’t matter whether you have a few delegates on your training course, or have an event with 10,000+ attendees, we can help at no extra cost.
  2. It assists with the administrative burden of providing CPD certificates to your attendees, saving yourself considerable cost, time and effort by streamlining your post training and events activities.
  3. It enhances your client experience by providing fully holistic Continuing Professional Development.
  4. It enables your delegates to verify their CPD certificates - Using a unique QR code applied to each certificate, your delegates can verify the validity of the completed training activity. This can be presented to their governing body as an official CPD certificate of completion, issued by The CPD Certification Service.

What types of training are eligible for The Delegate Certificate Service (DCS)?

CPD providers are able to utilise key features of membership such as the Delegate Certificate Service (DCS) to help support their business, marketing and training objectives. All forms of certified training activities that have been approved by our Assessments Team are eligible to use The Delegate Certificate Service. Some examples of the types of training activities that are commonly accredited are:
  1. Training Course
  2. Seminar
  3. Workshop
  4. Webinar
  5. Event
  6. eLearning
  7. Online Course
  8. Training Video
  9. Podcast
  10. Literature
The CPD Certification Service provide delegate certificates for a range of different size organisations training providers to conference organisers, universities, local authorities and Government departments.

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