References / Suitability Statements

The deadline for Suitability Statements is 4 December 2024.

Applications and Suitability Statements are released together to the courses, so please make sure we get both of your Suitability Statements in good time.

How to contact your nominees

We contact your nominees before you submit your Application

It is your responsibility to ensure that your Suitability Statements are submitted in good time. When you enter your nominees' contact details in your Application you start the process of emailing them to request their Suitability Statements.

If you are not ready for them to be contacted, do not enter their details.

We do not wait for you to submit your Application before contacting your nominees. This gives nominees enough time to write their Suitability Statements. So please check that your nominees are willing to provide a Suitability Statement before you enter their contact details.

Also, your nominee cannot start their Suitability Statement until you enter their contact details, so please don't wait too long.

Email addresses for your nominees

Please enter a workplace email address for both of your nominees as we cannot use personal email accounts (e.g. hotmail, gmail etc) to contact them.

If you do not know your nominee's workplace email address you can indicate this in your Application. Then contact us for further details.

My nominee didn't get the email

The first email is sent to your nominee after you enter their details and click Contact My Nominees.

If your nominee does not receive the initial email you can send it again from your Suitability Statements screen using the relevant Resend button. However, your nominee's email software may treat our emails as junk or spam, so please ask your nominee to first check their Junk/Spam folder.

If the nominee still cannot find the email (and they have checked Junk/Spam, Deleted and Quarantine folders) please contact us, and give the nominees email address.

• Please see the Contact us page for our details

How your nominees use our website

Suitability Statements are completed on this website. The email requesting the Suitability Statement has a link which gives your nominee access.

If your nominee is, for whatever reason, unable to use this website please ask them to contact us about providing the Suitability Statement.

• Please see the Contact Us page for our details

Editing the Suitability Statement

Your nominees can save their answers and then return to the Suitability Statement to edit it when convenient, in the same way that you can save and then edit sections of your Application.

Your nominees must answer all the questions in a Suitability Statement, though most questions have a "not applicable" or similar option. If any questions have not been answered when the nominee tries to submit the Suitability Statement, they will be prompted to complete the missing items.

Once a Suitability Statement has been submitted it cannot be edited.

Getting a fully completed Suitability Statement

We encourage all nominees to complete the Suitability Statement on this website but if, for example, an organisation has a policy to only provide their own standard document they can email this to us if it comes from the person/organisation you have nominated.

However, if a nominee can only provide a standard document which does not address the questions in the Suitability Statement, or they cannot answer several of the questions asked in the Suitability Statement, this could affect your Application.

Some course centres have specific requirements for the format of Suitability Statements and who can provide them.

• Please see the Courses section for the requirements of individual course centres