Everything I have written about IBLCE and NCCA/ICE is drawn from
information freely available to anyone who has the time, inclination and
tenacity to visit the respective websites, read and ponder the various
documents that each organization has to offer, and to form opinions.

I share my opinions with Lactnet because that is where I can find a whole
lot of IBCLCs, whose professional interests match my own.

I am currently off the Board at ILCA ... so all of my posts (since 1 Aug
2011) have been with my Liz Brooks hat on, and no other.

IBLCE maintains the accreditation it has been given by NCCA, to give the
IBCLC certification exam, because it fulfills all the 21 Standards required
of NCCA for that privilege.  Standard 21 discusses "Maintaining
Accreditation."  Read it at the very end of
http://www.credentialingexcellence.org/portals/0/STANDARDS%20-%20Updated%20January%202010.pdf
.

Every year every organization that is accredited by NCCA (like IBLCE) must
file an annual report with NCCA/ICE so that  IBLCE may be "monitored."
http://www.credentialingexcellence.org/NCCAAccreditation/ApplicationandAnnualReport/tabid/156/Default.aspx
 Every five years, every organization that is accredited by NCCA must be
re-approved, by sending in a complete application.  No "short form
renewals" given.

The application [and 5-year renewal] deals almost exclusively with the
elements of writing, giving, and scoring a certification exam. Makes sense,
and more's the pity, because I have always said:  IBLCE simply cannot be
beat on the manner in which it writes, conducts and scores the IBCLC exam.
It is when IBLCE has unilaterally ventured into re-writing all of the many
*mandatory* documents that guide our day-to-day professional practice (vs.
documents that guide the writing and conducting the exam), without first
notifying certificants much less seeking prior input, that I take issue.

I do not know if anyone has ever written to NCCA/ICE about IBLCE.  NCCA
accredits other international certification exam-givers ... this is not a
USA-based entity.
-- 
Liz Brooks JD IBCLC FILCA
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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