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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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For the finer details of the RCDTBP and its history, please refer to the following documents:

Meeting Reports 2015 - 2016

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Download Re-Launch Meeting 23rd February 2016

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Download Open Meeting Report 10th July 2015



Council Management Meetings 2010 - 2014


Download Report 26th November 2014


Download Report 27th October 2014


Download Report 14th October 2014


Download Informal notes September 2013

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Download Council Minutes  10th May 2012

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Download Council Minutes 17th May 2011

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Download Council Minutes 1st October 2010



Companion Animal Welfare Council Documents

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Download CAWC Code of Practice 2010

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Download CAWC Report 2008

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