The Council will work to provide you with an outcome within calendar one month of your appeal submission. In circumstances where this won’t be possible, the Council will make every effort to inform you of a delay and provide an estimated date by which the appeal outcome will be provided. 

The Council does not directly overturn Licensed Body professional registration decisions, so your appeal, if upheld, will not result in the immediate granting of a professional title. 

We may, however: 

Require the Licensed Body to re-assesses your application, which may or may not involve you providing further evidence or (re-) interviewing. 
Move your application to a different Licensed Body. 
Ask you to wait while we work with the Licensed Body to improve their processes, then invite you to re-apply.

Please note that any re-assessment may result in a “lower” award than the initial assessment, and in these cases the appeal award is final. You cannot take back the appeal and get the “higher” award originally recommended. 

Where your case uncovers a more serious issue, we will take further remedial action which you will not always be informed of. 

You will not usually be asked to pay for reassessments or similar that are prescribed as the outcome of an appeal; however, we reserve the right to do so. 