The practical course for SpLD Assessors moving into private practice with safer foundations and fewer crossed fingers.

Setting up independently is about far more than being able to offer robust assessments.

This course will help you with:

  • building systems that are safe and workable
  • understanding your responsibilities around data and consent
  • putting the right paperwork and procedures in place
  • thinking carefully about lone working and personal safety
  • making sensible business decisions around structure, money and visibility
  • staying aligned with SASC expectations in your early APC years
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Legal and professional essentials

When you work independently, responsibility sits with you. We look at the practical implications of data handling, ICO registration, insurance, and record retention — including why policy wording matters and why “covered for teaching” is not the same as being covered for diagnosis.
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Paperwork and procedures

Independent assessors need robust systems before the assessment even begins. This includes thinking through: terms and conditions privacy notices background questionnaires visual difficulties screening tracking systems for pre-assessment paperwork accessibility of forms
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Terms, privacy and payment

Your documents need to work hard for you. The course explores what needs to be clearly set out around scope of service, fees, payment arrangements, cancellations, confidentiality, report use, as well as what you need to explain to clients.
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Business structure and money systems

Sole trader or limited company? Separate bank account? Accounting software? Expense tracking? What do you actually need to earn per assessment for this to be sustainable? This section helps you begin thinking through the money side of private practice realistically rather than optimistically.
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Pricing and visibility

We look at how to think through costs, workload, sustainability, and what you realistically need to charge. The course also highlights the importance of being visible: your business name, website, domain, professional email, and online presence all matter if you want people to actually find you.
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Lone working and keeping yourself safe

This course also includes dedicated content on lone working and personal safety. If you assess one-to-one, you are a lone worker — whether that is in your own home, someone else’s home, a hired room, a school room, or online. This section helps you think through risks, settings, emergency planning, check-in systems, and what sensible professional safety procedures look like in real practice.
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SASC CPD expectations for the first three years of APC practice

Independent working is not just about getting started. It is also about staying current, defensible, and professionally accountable. This course includes clarification of the SASC CPD expectations for the first three years of APC practice, helping you think about how ongoing development fits into safe and sustainable independent work.

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Whether you are beginning to think about private work, or want to check you are doing things right, this course helps you understand what independent practice really involves. Sally-Ann shares her many years of experience from a business perspective and helps you think through the practical realities of becoming a business.

This course is for you if you are:

  • thinking about moving into independent assessment work
  • already doing some assessment work for others and considering private practice
  • at an early stage of your assessment career and wanting to understand the realities of working independently
  • wanting to tighten your systems so your practice is safer, clearer and more sustainable
  • looking for a practical springboard rather than a generic business course
  • relevant whether you are planning a small side business or building towards a full-time assessment practice.

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A note:

If you are a Praxis Pro member, you already have access to this course content inside your membership area.

This course is not legal advice, and it is not a substitute for specialist advice from accountants, insurers, legal professionals or business advisers where needed.

What it does offer is something incredibly useful:


a practical, assessor-specific starting point from someone who understands the realities of the role and wants to help you think things through well.