Launch

Announcement

Aromatherapy Council

The Lead Body for the UK Aromatherapy Profession

Please find below details of press releases and statements from the launch of the Council on the 1st December 2006

This press release was inserted into professional association’s journals and newsletters, plus other complementary therapy magazines to announce the launch of the Aromatherapy Council

 

Submission to the SCCP on the safety of Tea Tree oil filed on 31st March 2007.

 

This is the official response from the AC to the consultation detailing proposed reforms to restrict s12(1) use which will affect the way aromatherapists currently work. The deadline for this consultation was 30th March 2007.

ATTIA Response to the recent media hype over claims that Lavender & Tea Tree causes breast growth in young boys

This press release reports on our official launch party in the Attlee Suite of the House of Commons on the 19th December 2006.

Press release 01/12/06

Prepubertal Gynecomastia Linked to Lavender and Tea Tree Oil.

 

Gynecomastia Linked to Lavender and Tea Tree Oil.

S12(1) reform MHRA Consultation March 07

SCCP report on Tea Tree

Launch in the House of Commons 19/12/06

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     Do you use s12(1) in your aromatherapy practice? Please take part in the survey

 

Available free of charge for the public and AC Registered Aromatherapists can order up to 50 at any one time to use to enhance their practice.

 

New information leaflets May 2007

 

Available free of charge, this guide helps aromatherapists keep within the Law when advertising their services on leaflets and websites.

It also includes a sample of a consultation record card used by therapists. This is available for therapists and student to use and shows the public what to expect in a consultation prior to treatment.

 

New Guide—Responsible Marketing

 

The AC is currently reverting back to becoming a lead body for the profession, bringing together the whole profession into one governing body. This has occurred as a result of the launch of one federal regulator for complementary therapies in October 2007 (www.grcct.org) and the imminent launch of a second federal regulator in April 2008 currently to be called the Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council. We will post all the information therapists and the public need in due course.

 

Full details of what has now transpired in relation to the changes in the AC can be read in the minutes of the AC meeting on the 6th November 2007 (see minutes page).

 

We do need to report that the Aromatherapy Council was excluded from the Federal Working Group along with the Reflexology and Reiki profession earlier this year. The FWG was the working group set up by the Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health to facilitate one federal structure for regulation of complementary therapies. Unfortunately, as the three professions disagreed with the structure that was emerging,  instead of allowing discussion and compromise, the Chair of the FWG saw fit to exclude them from further discussions within the FWG. The AC & RF have tried to be reinstated but because we did not like the structure, we were not permitted to rejoin. Please read the notes of the meeting between the AC, RF and the CEO of the Foundation and Chair of the FWG by clicking here.

 

We are of course saddened by this turn of events. The AC and RF prefer a different approach and this has been realised in the GRCCT. It is important to note that whilst the majority of the Aromatherapy associations support the GRCCT model, some are still not advising their members to join it as they do not yet see any benefit of a federal regulator for their members and believe that having two models will be confusing (see minutes of 6/11/07 for full details). The Reiki group is currently considering the GRCCT model as are several other therapy groups. It is up to therapists to decide which federal regulator to join but of course we will continue to lobby for one federal regulator in the future and hope that a compromise will finally be met where our opinions and concerns are properly addressed.

 

Click here to view the GRCCT Progress Report

 

Click here to view the GRCCT Business Plan

Re-structuring of the AC