About SCMA

The Standing Conference of Mediation Advocates is a multi disciplinary cross-professional membership trade organisation established to promote and deliver best practice and professional excellence in mediation advocacy through individual and corporate training and commercial activities. The practical objectives of SCMA are

• To provide a forum for discourse among mediation practitioners
• To deliver reasonably priced certificated and accredited skills training for mediation advocates
• To promote actively the expertise and experience of members in the marketplace
• To monitor and validate members' training and CPD records
• To engage with mediation service providers, clients of the process and academics researching in mediation and associated fields

Structure
SCMA operates through a Convenor and an appointed Advisory Board

Activities
SCMA owns and operates the URL website Forum For Mediation Advocacy which acts as a platform/portal with links to other mediation organisations.

It provides domestic skills training through the use of senior practitioners and experienced authors and trainers in the field, and bespoke corporate training accredited with the Bar Council, Law Society, ILEX, and participates in the RICS Life Long Learning programme, and with other professional bodies. It promotes and seeks member discounts for other commercial and mediation organisations' products; it offers books and journals, discounted to members where possible.

SCMA will market the services of its members through its website and maintain a register of members' CPD records which it will verify to enquirers. Its degrees of membership relate to such CPD records. Members will be able to have either a link to their own website or to put up a blog of their activities on the public FMA site.

SCMA hosts open meetings, seminars and other activities intended to culminate in an annual members' convention

SCMA provides an e-newsletter to members and will commission a full practice and academic journal in due course.

SCMA promotes its identity with a logo which it hopes to establish in the marketplace as a quality mark for Mediation Advocates. Its full members are recognised by the distinguishing letters SCMA Mediation Advocate after their name. Its charter corporate members may use the SCMA logo on their letterhead.

Please note that SCMA operates as a trade association and does not have any regulatory function other than to promote best practice and the pursuit of excellence. Regulatory functions will be carried out by the member's 'home' profession i.e. lawyers, surveyors, accountants, engineers.