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VRCT Grandparenting Routes to Close on 31st December 2011
At its meeting held on 3rd November 2010 the VRCT Panel agreed to close its Grandparenting routes on 31st December 2011.
The VRCT was formally launched in August 2000. The Panel now believe that, by the end of 2011, all individuals who are qualified to join via the Grandparenting routes will have had ample opportunity to make a successful application to join the Register: All employed before 1st January 2007, will have completed the requisite time in post to qualify via one of the Grandparenting routes. Furthermore, those individuals who also require an appropriate qualification will have had five years to gain one.
This decision will affect all Clinical Technologists, employed prior to 1st January 2007, who have either never joined the VRCT Register or who have joined and subsequently lapsed or removed themselves from the Register and who are unable to join or re-join using the Primary Criterion as their route of entry.
Please Note: if you do not apply or re-apply to join the VRCT Register before 31st December 2011, any subsequent application or re-application you may make after that date will only be successful if you can demonstrate that you have completed one of the entry programmes defined by the Primary Criterion.
Full details of the decision and its implications can be found on the VRCT website: www.vrct.org.uk
If you have any concerns arising from this decision please write to the Registrar at Fairmount House, 230 Tadcaster Road, York, YO24 1ES.
The VRCT Panel
1st December 2010