Recognition on a role, profile or flow
The "Recognised by [body]" badge, the detail panel it opens, and how recognition differs from verification.
A practitioner reads a role's page in RPF. Alongside the role's other markers they see a "Recognised by [body]" badge. It tells them at a glance that this is not just RPF's own description of a job — a named body stands behind it.
This page is for the practitioners who read role pages, and for anyone curious about what the badge means and how it differs from verification.
The "Recognised by [body]" badge
What appears on a role page when a formally-published role carries at least one active recognition.
When a role, profile or flow is formally published and carries at least one active recognition, a badge appears on its page: "Recognised by [body]". If more than one body recognises it, the badge reflects each. When the role carries no active recognitions, no badge appears.
Selecting the badge opens a detail panel with everything the recognition record holds. Two distinct conditions must hold for a badge to show: the role is formal, and at least one recognition on it is active.
What the detail panel shows
Each active recognition's details — one entry per recognising body.
- Recognising body
- The named organisation that recognises this role, profile or flow.
- Credential type
- The kind of credential the recognition leads to.
- CPD points
- Continuing-professional-development credit, where the body publishes one — shown in the body's own scheme.
- Validity & renewal
- How long the credential stays valid and how often it must be renewed — when the body specifies these.
- Evidence requirements
- What the body expects a candidate to provide to earn the credential.
- Market
- Whether this recognition applies to one specific jurisdiction or worldwide.
- Body's own page
- A link to the body's published page about this recognition — for the canonical reference.
Recognition vs. verification
Two assurances about a role. They mean different things, and a role may have either, both, or neither.
A named body backs this role as meeting its standard. It is a claim about the role made by an external organisation, recorded in RPF.
Practitioners have checked the role's relationships are right. It is RPF's own structured check — a panel of invited practitioners confirms or adjusts the role profile by profile.
The formal-role gate
Both conditions are required for a badge to show: the role, profile or flow must be in RPF's formal state, and the recognition itself must be active. A recognition prepared on a draft or under-review role exists in the admin but does not show on the role page.
