The RTPI has published its first guidance on professional ethics, highlighting planners’ need to ‘act fearlessly and impartially in their professional judgement’.
RTPI writes:
Ethics is an important element of being a professional planner. It is one of the competencies required of practitioners seeking membership of the RTPI through the Assessment of Professional Competence routes.
The RTPI Code of Professional Conduct sets out the required standards of professional conduct and practice expected of RTPI Members. Its purpose is to protect and guide practitioners, and to serve as a tool to maintain public trust in the profession. All members, irrespective of their class of membership, are required to adhere to its five Core Principles:
- Competence,honesty and integrity
- Independent professional judgment
- Due care and diligence
- Equality and respect
- Professional behaviour
