How do I verify a CPD certificate?
Every certificate issued through Open CPD is tamper-proof and tied to a permanent record. No personal details are revealed.
Why so many CPD certificates can’t be checked
Verification takes a permanent, structured record behind every certificate. Most CPD certificates were never issued that way — not because anything was hidden, but because the infrastructure to check them simply doesn’t exist.
If a certificate doesn’t check out, that’s very likely because it was never recorded anywhere checkable — not because it’s fake. Unrecorded, not fraudulent.
Permanent, checkable by anyone
Every certificate issued through Open CPD is tied to the course record that produced it — tamper-proof once issued, and checkable online at any time, by anyone, for as long as it exists.
Didn’t find what you expected?
Ask your training provider why — it’s very likely they haven’t built the infrastructure to make it checkable, not that anything is wrong with your training.
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