If you did not get your e-mail from IBLCE,  please see this page on their
website: http://www.iblce.org/news-from-the-board

Your IBLCE Code of Ethics (COE) has been entirely rewritten into an IBLCE
Code of Professional Conduct (CPC), and IBLCE is giving you two weeks to
tell them what you think.

Compare the COE (still on the IBLCE website at
http://www.iblce.org/upload/downloads/CodeOfEthics.pdf) with the CPC.  Much
of the same language is there ... just wiggled around and re-numbered.

But there are some very problematic issues -- not the least of which is that
[WHO] International Code compliance is no longer required for IBCLCs, but
merely "encouraged."

This document does not have any language, anywhere, embracing the need to
protect public health, safety and welfare.  And that ain't mere
window-dressing ... the NCCA/ICE (the entity that accredits IBLCE as the
authority to give the IBCLC certification exam) requires for all of the
hundreds of organizations that it accredits that their testing must be
geared to protect public health safety and welfare.  Compare the Preamble of
the COE with that of the CPC.

The preamble comments about why IBLCE was created are just flat out wrong.
The IBLCE Articles of Incorporation, By-laws ... and the NCCA/ICE
accreditation authority ... are all centered around the premise that IBLCE's
one and only job is to conduct an excellent IBCLC exam.

IBLCE has given us about 10 days to comment.  Lactnet recently witnessed two
weeks of excellent and passionate posts about IBLCE changing education
requirements for the IBCLC exam without seeking outside input.
Well-- now is the time to make good on the recent lament that IBLCE never
asks for input.

IBLCE has not promised they will make any more changes to the CPC ... but
they have asked for comment.  In my book, that means we write, call, fax,
e-mail, AND use the little comment box in their link.

-- 
Liz Brooks JD IBCLC FILCA
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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