Most guidance on choosing apps assumes your client notes will live on a company's server, with a monthly fee to match. That's only half the picture. This plain-English guide shows how on-device apps and private voice typing can keep notes with you, what the law and your professional body actually ask, and how to set it all up, whichever body you belong to.
Most UK professional bodies now require a clinical will, and BACP's requirement becomes mandatory in November 2026. This guide covers what a clinical will is, the three roles that make it function on the day, what goes into the instructions themselves, and six questions to test your arrangement against the moment it is actually needed.
What BACP, BABCP, BPC, BPS, UKCP, NCPS and HCPC each require or recommend for a clinical will, where they differ, and what the published guidance leaves out.
A reader-question walk through the final published BACP ethical framework: AI tools, clinical wills, privacy notices, the new DUAA complaints rules, and what to do this year.
