British Association of Occupational Therapists
College of Occupational Therapists

Here is a list of all COT/BAOT publications that are available to download free of charge to the general public:

Now available:

Essential

• Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct:
  • Code of Ethics (376KB PDF*)
  • Welsh version: Côd Moeseg ac Ymddygiad Proffesiynol (64KB PDF*)
  For queries regarding the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct for Occupational Therapists, please contact the Ethics Committee c/o:
  Moo Ling Boey
  Professional Affairs Officer
  Tel: 020 7450 2328
  Fax: 020 7450 2367
  Email: moo.ling.boey@cot.co.uk
  
• College of Occupational Therapists Pre-Registration Standards
  • College of Occupational Therapists Pre-Registration Standards (400KB PDF*)
  • Pre-registration main section (82KB PDF*)
  • Appendix 1- Guidance and expectations for pre-registration programmes (39KB PDF*)
  • Appendix 2- Professional requirements and recommendations for pre-registration education (27KB PDF*)
  • Appendix 3- Accreditation of pre-registration programmes in OT (53KB PDF*)
  • Appendix 4- The director of the occupational therapy programme or professional programme lead (30KB PDF*)
  • Standards (137KB doc)
    
    
• Recovering Ordinary Lives:
  • Recovering Ordinary Lives: A vision for the next ten years
  • Recovering Ordinary Lives: Literature review
  • Recovering Ordinary Lives: Results from service user and carer focus groups (554KB PDF*)
• Standard Statements 2007 (433KB PDF*)

• Strategic Vision and Action Plan for Lifelong Learning (178KB PDF* )
• Occupational therapy defined as a complex intervention - OT as defined by OTs: a ground-breaking study by freelance OT Jennifer Creek, with supervision from research OT Dr Sarah Cook.

Guidance

• Accreditation of Practice Placement Educator's scheme (APPLE)
• A Competence Framework for Trusted Assessors (2005) (3.61MB PDF*)
• Developing the Occupational Therapy Profession
• From Interface to Integration:
  • Position statement (35KB PDF*)
    
  • Strategy (424KB PDF*)
  • The response of the Council of the College of Occupational Therapists (36KB PDF*)
  • Application in Wales (English text) (125KB PDF*)
    
  • Application in Wales (Welsh text) (125KB PDF*)

• Falls Audit Pack (2002) (353KB PDF*)
• Guidance on Disability and Learning
• Minor adaptations without delay:
  A practical guide and technical specifications for housing associations.
  • Cover (294KB PDF*)
  • Part 1 (259KB PDF*)
  • Part 2 (270KB PDF*)

Research and Review

• Doubly Disadvantaged: Waiting lists for children with developmental co-ordination disorder (2003):
• Report of a survey on Waiting Lists and Waiting Times for Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)(2.32MB PDF *)
• Fact Sheet - Report of a survey on Waiting Lists and Waiting Times for Children with DCD (33KB PDF*)
• Enabling Everyday Lives Text in: English (1.33MB PDF*) and Welsh (1.35MB PDF*)

Other

• 'Activity provision: benchmarking good practice in care homes' -
  • Activity Provision - ENGLISH (466KB PDF)*
    Activity Provision - WELSH (357KB PDF)*
• Work matters: vocational navigation for occupational therapy staff (3,125KB PDF*)
• Occupational Therapy Careers Handbook