It aims to assist in raising the standard of professional advice, and give members access to SPAA technical staff for assistance on technical issues.

“SPAA has always placed enormous emphasis on the ongoing education of its members, and this online technical mentoring program is more evidence of our continued encouragement towards excellence,” said SPAA chief executive Andrea Slattery.

“The pilot program will be available to 100 specialist members in early October and the full program will be available to all SPAA Specialist members at a later date.

“Our specialist members have been requesting such a program and we expect that the participants will hail from small practices right through to the technical gurus.”