Corporate Safeguarding Policy

The GOC held its first Council meeting of the year yesterday. Agenda items included approving a discussion paper on the GOC’s approach to setting registrant fees for public consultation and discussing the Professional Standards Authority’s (PSA) 2024–25 performance review of the GOC.

For the fourth year in a row, the GOC has met all 18 of the PSA’s Standards of Good Regulation.

The General Optical Council is looking to appoint four new members to its Advisory Panel committees. 

The GOC has appointed Kalwant Grewal as a lay member of its Council. He was appointed by the Privy Council, and his term will begin on 1 February 2026.