Chartered Institute of Public Relations

The association provides training and education, publishes a code of conduct and hosts awards and events.

[4] The Institute of Public Relations first discussed attaining chartered status, a professional recognition in the United Kingdom, with the Privy Council in 1956.

The Privy Council said that in order to be awarded chartered status, the organisation would have "adopt and publish professional ethical standards relevant to the practice of public relations and to maintain procedures for the regulation of members' professional conduct and discipline.

[8] To support its bid for chartered status, IPR created a joint report with the Department of Trade and Industry in 2003 based on a survey of 812 professionals.

[7] The following year the Privy Council told IPR it needed to do more for the public good and professional development to qualify.

By 2005, the privy council decided that IPR and its members act in a way that contributes to the public good and granted it chartered status.

[9] An analysis in the Journal of Communication Management in 2005 said that chartered status was needed in a time where public trust in businesses, institutions and governments was decreasing, but noted CIPR's limited power to enforce ethics among its members.

CIPR felt that copyright policy decisions were prioritizing commercial interests over the public good.

According to PRWeek and CorpComms Magazine the most important aspect of CIPR's guidance is that PR professionals not directly edit English Wikipedia articles about their clients or employers.

[18][19] In 2009 CIPR provided an official response to a report by the Public Administration Select Committee's (PASC) that suggested the creation of a new government entity to oversee and regulate lobbyists.

[33] CIPR publishes a code of conduct that encourages members to "deal honestly and fairly" with clients, employers, business partners and the public.