There is soooo much confusion on this topic. Personally, I think this scheme is good, it just did not go far enough. Anything to regulate the industry is a good idea to keep the cowboys out. Unfortunately, it has driven the midnight cowboy and "weekend electrician" underground. Everyone in the industry complains and says "do a three day course and become registered to wire a house" I didn't hear much complaining before 2005 when painters, bakers, candlestick makers and basket weavers were attempting DIY electrics.
Part P is electrical safety. When doing domestics, you also confirm Part B - Fire Safety, Part L - Energy Conservation etc. Look at commercial specs and plans and believe it or not, you will see Part A, Part B, P and so on. The only difference is.....DIY Joe public will "have a go" - It must be ok it worked first time and didn't blow a fuse.
Notifying work is a solution but its not being policed
I always hope,but with little chance of respite, that posts such as this will dry up now the part p thing is to be chopped in all bar name (in England that is)we in Wales must suffer it yet more before our burden is also lifted
The two points I have underlined in your post are of such differing opinion to my own that chalk and cheese would be a better likeness
The first point I will answer very abrubptly
It is not good at all,it never was good at the outset, and its not good all these years later
The second point
Part P. far from keeping the cowboys out and improving standards,it has been such a calamatous mess that it has had the complete and opposite effect to your quote
In the rush for pound coins,the schemes who were permitted to administer the shambles, have been in a stampede to accumulate numbers,the entry criteria was set so low,even the government,who had shown no interest prior,were alarmed enough to publish damning warnings to them about their sub standard acceptance of competence levels
The consequences of the stampede of registering anyone with pound coins was that the trade became diluted with ill and non trained all sorts,these all sorts could now operate as registered all singing all dancing "Domestic installers" a term that should be consigned to the shameful book of history,courtesy of that abominable organisation the Niceic(the main and most prominent culprits of the destruction of this our trade)
Part P is and has been an insult to the trade of electrician
They have taken a section of an electricians remit and farmed it out to other trades as some sort of add on skill to allied trades
That farming out of part of our trade has degraded what an electrician is expected to embrace
It's all been a very shameful expensive slap in the face to the trade and it is waved a very fond good riddance
