CII accredits SJP development framework

'Promoting professional standards'

Sophie King
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The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has accredited St James's Place's development framework, which supports the advice giant's back-office teams.

St James's Place (SJP) described the accreditation as a "significant milestone" for its professional development, while it is the first time the CII has supported a framework such as this. SJP said it demonstrated "a commitment to ongoing learning" via externally validated continuing professional development standards. The development framework has been designed to support practice support specialists with technical, business, systems and process training through a range of learning methods, including face-to-face, e-learning and webinars. Practice support specialists can also choose ...

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