Setting up in business
If you have been made redundant and are considering setting up your own practice there are various stages you must achieve to become a registered practice, a mandatory requirement for CIAT members.
- Insurances: Professional Indemnity and others information sheet
- Definition of Members in Practice on their Own Account
- Hourly Rate Calculations: a Basic Guide information sheet
- Marketing and Maintaining a Successful Business information sheet
- Requirements for CIAT Registered Practices
- Practice profile form for Members
- Practice profile form for profile candidates
- Professional indemnity insurance
- Practice Services and Information
Retirement
If you decide to wind up your practice, you will need to secure run off professional indemnity insurance.
Protecting your Reputation in Retirement information sheet (CIS)
Students, Associates and Technician members wishing to practice
Only Chartered Members and profile candidates are permitted to practice on their own account. You will therefore need to transfer your membership status to that of profile candidate until you can come through for Chartered Membership and complete a practice profile form for profile candidates and forward to the Institute together with proposed business stationery and evidence of professional indemnity insurance.
Profile candidates wishing to practice
Profile candidates need to register their practices in accordance with the Institute’s Code of Conduct by completing a practice profile form for profile candidates and return together with evidence of professional indemnity insurance and samples of business stationery for approval.
Bankruptcy
If you become Bankrupt or cease to trade – you must advise the Practice Department in writing ASAP, with the details.
To register or discuss your situation further please contact CIAT’s Practice Department