Welcome to the Community Equipment Code of Practice Scheme (CECOPS)

Every year, approximately 12 million pieces of disability equipment are provided by the Public Sector in the UK, for use in the community by nearly 4 million children and adults, many of whom are wholly dependent on this equipment for their daily lives.

Our entire care system relies on community equipment being provided in a safe and timely manner, without which many care-related strategies and objectives are simply not achievable. Failure to provide equipment appropriately has profound and damaging effects, sometimes even fatally, for service users and their carers, and as a result is much more costly for NHS and Local Authority organisations.

CECOPS is a not for profit organisation set up with the purpose of making community disability equipment services safer, of better quality and much more efficient. This will be achieved by encouraging commissioner and provider organisations to adopt the new and widely supported Code of Practice for Community Equipment. CECOPS is the responsible body for administering the Code of Practice Scheme, where organisations which adopt the Code of Practice can register and achieve accreditation status, thus demonstrating the quality of their service. CECOPS also oversees Approved Training as part of the Scheme.

...the Code of Practice Scheme is credible and ethical; it will deliver tangible benefits to disabled and non-disabled people alike

Sir Bert Massie CBE