What is the time limit for reporting an unethical psychologist in the past?

[Feelinggrosstoday]

Hi,

I had a recent thread under this user name about a past psychologist who crossed some lines including non consensual touching and people were urging me to report her.

If it happened years ago is it still possible to report a concern about this? I have looked on the HCPC site but cannot find the time limit.

I'd contact HCPC directly and ask them. I'm sorry this happened to you.

I don't think there is a time limit for concerns about someone's fitness to practice, in general hcpc work more on the basis of being able to consider how credible a report is - which can be harder if it's historic but not always. Please contact hcpc to discuss what you're worried about.

If you know their name you should be able to find out which membership body they belong to and complain to them.

All of the evidence is on email and text messages, I wonder if they will be considered valid or not.

Yes, as I mentioned in the op it is the HCPC and they do have a guide to the complaint process, but maybe it is too long ago to be relevant.

For some reason I thought any complaint had to be made within 5 years, and this was a longer ago, however I can't find any reference to the 5 year time window.

If they are still registered with the hcpc you can contact the hcpc there shouldn't be a time limitA the hcpc are interested if they are fit to practice now or not and something serious happening in the past is relevant - it's not like an employment tribunal with laws

Haven't seen your other thread but would just say that it''s obviously affecting you, so what's the worst that could happen? Put the complaint in. It's possible (likely even) that she's a repeat offender so it can't do any harm, and hopefully it will ease your mind a bit once you taken some control, regardless of the time that's passed. Good luck.

@Feelinggrosstoday commonly the hcpc deal with complaints with minimal evidence other than a verbal account. It's different to the threshold of evidence for criminal cases. I've previously worked in roles that were hcpc registered and I've never heard of a 5 year rule, and it wouldn't make sense to have a time limit given that registration includes suitability to work with vulnerable people. It's obviously affected you so if you feel able to, please do report it.

OP I think the right thing to do is to report.
Especially considering protecting others. If there is another concern about the same person then your info could help to corroborate even if your incident is quite a long time ago and cannot be investigated.

I did find some info about it and they say they "may not be able to proceed with concerns that relate to incidents over five years old" but will consider each case in merit.
See here
https://www.hcpc-uk.org/globalassets/resources/guidance/how-to-raise-a-concern.pdff_

There is no time limit. Make the report, your evidence of emails and texts are more than most complaints have.