National CPD Certification UK - The CPD Register Review

Commercial identification and contactability

The legal entity behind the website is NATIONAL CPD CERTIFICATION UK LTD, company number 16777162, incorporated on 10 October 2025. The company trades as "National CPD Certification UK". The registered office on Companies House is 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, a commercial registered office provider address used by a high volume of companies.

The Contact page (https://cpd-certification.uk/contact_us, accessed 27 May 2026) publishes two email addresses. No telephone number and no physical trading address are published on the website at the date of review.

The Companies Act 2006, sections 1200–1206, requires businesses to disclose the legal entity behind any trading name on their website and in commercial correspondence. The full legal company name (NATIONAL CPD CERTIFICATION UK LTD) and Companies House number do not appear to be disclosed on the website at the date of review.

The sole director and sole person with significant control is Rupak Zaidi, appointed 10 October 2025. Identity verification under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 falls within the current statutory transition period.

Source: Companies House — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16777162 (accessed 27 May 2026); Contact page — https://cpd-certification.uk/contact_us (accessed 27 May 2026).

Constructive engagement following inter-party correspondence

The CPD Register issued an Inter-Party Resolution letter to the organisation on 11 May 2026 concerning advertising claims and intellectual property matters, with reference to the CAP Code and to published ASA rulings A25-1322754 (The Professional Development Consortium Ltd t/a CPD Standards Office, 6 May 2026), A25-1314465 (Centre of CPD Excellence) and A24-1247544. The CPD Register Ltd was the complainant in ruling A25-1322754.

The organisation engaged constructively with that correspondence throughout the 14 working day inter-party resolution period and made substantive amendments to the website in response. By 27 May 2026, all six claim categories identified in the inter-party correspondence had been resolved through amendments to the website at https://cpd-certification.uk/. The matter was confirmed as fully resolved on that date, without the need for a formal complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority.

The constructive and good-faith manner of the organisation's engagement is acknowledged and recorded here for transparency.

Source: ASA ruling A25-1322754 — https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/the-professional-development-consortium-ltd-a25-1322754-the-professional-development-consortium-ltd.html (accessed 27 May 2026); Inter-party correspondence between The CPD Register Ltd and National CPD Certification UK Ltd, 11–27 May 2026 (internal record); https://cpd-certification.uk/ — accessed 27 May 2026.

Transparency of assessment framework

The organisation publishes its accreditation framework at https://cpd-certification.uk/accreditation_framework (accessed 27 May 2026). The framework is named the C.A.R.E.S. Framework and sets out a five-stage process: (1) Application and Eligibility (Credit and Compliance); (2) Document Review and Mapping (Assessment and Accreditation), with learning objectives mapped to professional competencies aligned with the organisation's own quality framework; (3) Quality Assurance Audit, comprising a virtual review of delivery, engagement and facilities; (4) Evidence and Evaluation; (5) Accreditation and Recognition (Standards and Sustainability), valid for three years.

A separate page at https://cpd-certification.uk/accreditation_process (accessed 27 May 2026) sets out a five-step process for individual trainer accreditation. The framework references the organisation's own quality criteria rather than any external standards framework, following amendments made during the May 2026 inter-party resolution process.

Publication of a named framework with defined stages and a time-bound validity period is recorded as a positive feature of the listing.

Source: https://cpd-certification.uk/accreditation_framework, https://cpd-certification.uk/accreditation_process and https://cpd-certification.uk/faq — accessed 27 May 2026.

Pricing transparency

No pricing is published on the website at the date of review. The FAQ (https://cpd-certification.uk/faq, accessed 27 May 2026) states that tiered pricing is offered based on organisation size and number of activities to be certified, and directs enquirers to contact the organisation or submit an application for a detailed quote. No pricing page exists on the site.

Source: https://cpd-certification.uk/faq — accessed 27 May 2026.

Terms and conditions

A Refund Policy is published at https://cpd-certification.uk/refund_policy (accessed 27 May 2026), addressing non-refundable services, exceptional circumstances, withdrawal by applicant, the refund request process, and policy updates.

At the date of review, no general terms and conditions governing the accreditation service are published on the website. Direct URL checks for /terms and /terms_and_conditions returned 404 errors. The Refund Policy alone does not constitute a contractual framework for the accreditation relationship; matters typically addressed in accreditation terms — including duration of accreditation, conditions for withdrawal, intellectual property in submitted materials, use of trustmarks, complaints and dispute resolution — are not addressed in the Refund Policy.

No privacy policy is published on the website at the date of review. Direct URL checks for /privacy and /privacy_policy returned 404 errors. This is recorded alongside the provider registration page (https://cpd-certification.uk/provider_registration, accessed 27 May 2026), which collects personal data and accepts document uploads from applicants.

Source: https://cpd-certification.uk/refund_policy, https://cpd-certification.uk/provider_registration; URL checks for /terms, /terms_and_conditions, /privacy, /privacy_policy — accessed 27 May 2026.

Individual course assessment

The published framework describes assessment activities applied at the individual course or programme level (document review, learning objective mapping, evidence sampling and certificate verification). The website provides three public verification interfaces — organisation verification (https://cpd-certification.uk/centre/search), trainer verification (https://cpd-certification.uk/trainier_search) and programme verification (https://cpd-certification.uk/program_verification) — all accessed 27 May 2026. These are search interfaces that require the user to know the name of an accredited organisation, trainer or programme to retrieve a record; the directories are not openly browsable.

Given the company's incorporation date of 10 October 2025, the absence of a browsable public register of accredited activities is consistent with the early-stage status of the organisation.

Source: https://cpd-certification.uk/centre/search, https://cpd-certification.uk/trainier_search, https://cpd-certification.uk/program_verification — accessed 27 May 2026.

Review and renewal

The Accreditation Framework (https://cpd-certification.uk/accreditation_framework, accessed 27 May 2026) states that accreditation is valid for three years, subject to annual self-assessment and mid-term reviews, with renewal applications submitted six months before expiry. This represents reasonable disclosure of a review and renewal cycle. Specific criteria for mid-term reviews, audit methodology, renewal fees, and grounds for withdrawal prior to expiry are not published.

Source: https://cpd-certification.uk/accreditation_framework — accessed 27 May 2026.

Sale of training courses or materials

No evidence has been identified that the organisation sells training courses or training materials to the public. On this basis, no conflict of interest of this nature has been identified at the date of review.

Source: https://cpd-certification.uk/ and all sub-pages — accessed 27 May 2026.

Financial relationships with third-party service providers

No financial relationships with third-party service providers are disclosed on the website, and none have been identified through available sources.

Source: Website — https://cpd-certification.uk/ and all sub-pages (accessed 18 May 2026).

Ownership or control relationships with aligned commercial interests

The sole director and sole person with significant control is Rupak Zaidi, who holds 75% or more of shares and voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors. All ownership and control of the company is recorded as concentrated in a single individual. No other officers, directors or PSCs are recorded. No related company directorships or commercial conflicts of interest have been identified through publicly available sources at the date of review.

Source: Companies House — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16777162/persons-with-significant-control and https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16777162/officers — accessed 27 May 2026.

Consistency of filings with advertised activity

NATIONAL CPD CERTIFICATION UK LTD is registered under SIC codes 85590 (Other education not elsewhere classified) and 94120 (Activities of professional membership organisations), which are broadly consistent with the accreditation service advertised on the website. The only filing on record is the incorporation document dated 10 October 2025, which is consistent with the company's age. The first confirmation statement is due by 23 October 2026 and first accounts by 10 July 2027.

Source: Companies House — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16777162/filing-history — accessed 27 May 2026.

Companies House status

NATIONAL CPD CERTIFICATION UK LTD (company number 16777162) is recorded as Active. Incorporated 10 October 2025. Registered office: 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX — a commercial registered office provider address.

The trading name "National CPD Certification UK" incorporates the word "National," which is listed as a sensitive word under Companies House Annex A guidance on words implying a connection with government or a national body. Its use in both the registered company name and the trading name may convey to prospective customers an impression of official or government-endorsed status that the organisation does not hold.

Source: Companies House — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16777162 (accessed 27 May 2026).

Website status

The website at https://cpd-certification.uk/ was active and fully loading at the time of review (27 May 2026). All navigation and footer links resolve correctly using underscore-based URL slugs. All 13 pages identified via the site's link structure were tested; no broken internal navigation or footer links were found. The trainer verification page URL contains a typographical error in the slug (/trainier_search instead of /trainer_search), which is a minor technical error.

No terms and conditions, privacy policy, or pricing pages exist on the site. These are content absences rather than broken links.

Source: Website — https://cpd-certification.uk/ and all sub-pages (accessed 27 May 2026).

Regulatory rulings and public enforcement records

No rulings or enforcement actions by the ASA, ICO, Trading Standards or any other regulatory body have been identified against this organisation at the date of review. As noted in Section 1, an Inter-Party Resolution process initiated by The CPD Register in May 2026 was fully resolved within the 14 working day inter-party resolution period, without escalation to a formal ASA complaint.

No ICO registration for NATIONAL CPD CERTIFICATION UK LTD has been confirmed on the ICO register at the date of review. The provider registration page (https://cpd-certification.uk/provider_registration, accessed 27 May 2026) collects personal data and document uploads from applicants. Organisations that process personal data in the course of their business are in most cases required to register with the ICO under the Data Protection (Charges and Information) Regulations 2018 and pay the applicable data protection fee.

Source: ASA rulings — https://www.asa.org.uk/codes-and-rulings/rulings.html (accessed 27 May 2026); ICO register — https://ico.org.uk/ESDWebPages/Search (accessed 27 May 2026).

Distinguishing CPD from regulated qualifications

The website does not claim to offer or confer regulated qualifications and does not use Ofqual-regulated terminology (such as "Level 2", "Level 3", "Diploma" or "Qualification") in connection with its accreditation service at the date of review. No concerns regarding conflation of CPD accreditation with regulated qualifications have been identified.

Source: https://cpd-certification.uk/ and all sub-pages — accessed 27 May 2026.

Use of sensitive words ("National", "Accreditation", "Certification")

The organisation's registered company name and trading style use the words "National", "Accreditation" and "Certification". The UK Government guidance "Annex A: Sensitive words and expressions" (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/incorporation-and-names/annex-a-sensitive-words-and-expressions-or-words-that-could-imply-a-connection-with-government, accessed 27 May 2026) identifies certain words as requiring particular consideration:

"Accredit / Accreditation / Accredited / Accrediting" (Annex A, item 2) — use of this word in a company or business name normally requires a letter or email of non-objection from the Office for Product Safety and Standards.
"National" is treated as a sensitive word where its use in a name may imply a nationally recognised, government-affiliated, or sector-wide body.

We record these as factual observations against the GOV.UK guidance. No evidence of statutory recognition, government endorsement, or sector-wide mandate is published on the website at the date of review. We invite the organisation to consider publishing the basis on which the words "National" and "Accreditation" are used in its company name and marketing.

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/incorporation-and-names/annex-a-sensitive-words-and-expressions-or-words-that-could-imply-a-connection-with-government and https://cpd-certification.uk/ — accessed 27 May 2026.

Further Information about this organisation

Website

https://cpd-certification.uk/

Companies House Number

16777162

Companies House Incorporation Date

10th October 2025

ICO Number

Not confirmed

ICO Registration Date

Not confirmed

Physical Office Published

Telephone

Yes

Live Chat

Pricing Published

Accreditation Criteria Published

Yes — https://cpd-certification.uk/accreditation_framework

Activities Individually Accredited

Unknown

Review Frequency

Yes — three-year cycle with annual self-assessment (https://cpd-certification.uk/accreditation_framework)

Last Updated

27th May 2026

Disclaimer

We do our best to ensure that all information is accurate and up to date. If you are part of the above-mentioned organisation and some of the information, we have found is inaccurate please contact us at [email protected] so we can rectify this for you.

Methodology and Criteria for CPD Accreditation Organisation Listings

Back to CPD Accreditation Organisation Rankings

National CPD Certification UK LTD t/a National CPD Certification UK