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Having attended a consultation meeting on regulations on 27th Sept 2019, we are even more confident that the basics of everything that attendees referred to is already in place, and can easily be developed further. The CAWC Code seems widely acknowledged but the RCDTBP, founded in 2010 to hold the registers of Signatories to it, seems to have been a little lost in the ether.


In implementing the Code, the RCDTBP inclusively provides all individuals with a structured profile to register and build knowledge and experience, and together with the public feedback facility offered, it aims to help ensure every practitioner meets, and continually develops to meet, the professional demands of the industry.


The RCDTBP works on positivity, and our processes identify those for what they ‘put in’ to the industry, the profiling provides criteria to both recognise expertise and help all to develop.


RCDTBP Update November 2019

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Important Downloads


Canine ServicesClick to download Canine Services Document


Individual Signatories

Click to download Individual Signatories Document


Related Organisations

Click to download Related Organisations Document


Code of PracticeClick to download Code of Practice


Policy DocumentClick to download Policy Document

The Registration Council has the responsibility to manage and hold the official register of Signatories to the CAWC Code of Practice

 in regard to dogs. In doing so, it aims to unite all practitioners, service and course providers, related membership organisations

and charities; promote all efforts to advance animal welfare, and increase individual understanding of training, behaviour

and the canine-human relationship, whilst monitoring services to benefit and protect the public.


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Register Your Interest With Us


Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in the national registration of dog training and behaviour practitioners under the CAWC Code of Practice.


If you are a contact person for a canine related organisation, course or service provider with an interest in our development and wishing to be kept updated, please contact us giving details of your involvement. We are not in competition with any other organisation, but quite the opposite, we feel all should be recognised for their individuality and supported for the good work they do. We just wish to unite all with mutually beneficial industry affiliation, and hope you will take the opportunity to become involved, putting judgments aside for the greater good of advancing canine welfare and good practice.


If you are an individual in good standing, regardless of other affiliations and levels of experience, providing, helping or wishing to provide canine services for the public, we sincerely hope you will consider applying for formal Registration with us, to demonstrate your personal commitment to good standards.


Please Contact Us if you have any questions, concerns, or wish to be part of the consultation process.

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