Step-by-step business journeys

Start a private security business

End-to-end learning path for starting a private security company. Covers SIA regulation, personal and business licensing, approved contractor status, insurance, recruiting licensed staff, training programme setup, and compliance systems for winning contracts.

Employing security staff: your compliance obligations

What pubs, clubs, retail, and events businesses need to know when employing or contracting SIA-licensed security staff — covering licence verification, working time, CCTV, and onboarding

Plan SIA licence renewals for your team

Operational planning path for managing team SIA licence renewals. Check expiry dates, schedule training, and submit renewals within the 16-week window to prevent gaps in cover.

SIA licence compliance quick check

Quick compliance check for businesses employing SIA-licensed staff. Covers licence validity, licence types, refresher training, first aid, right to work, and working time.

Set up a security and investigation business

A step-by-step path through the regulations that apply to security and investigation businesses — manned guarding, door supervision, close protection, CVIT, CCTV operation, keyholding, alarm response, alarm and CCTV installation, and private investigation. Start by identifying which rules apply, work through the universal workplace duties, then cover the SIA licensing regime and installer certification, and finish with the compliance checklist.

Respond to SIA enforcement action

What to do if your security business faces SIA enforcement action including licence revocation, compliance inspection failure, or prosecution for deploying unlicensed staff. Covers identifying the enforcement type, understanding your rights, appealing to the First-tier Tribunal, and preventing recurrence.

Set up a public administration body

Learning path for public administration bodies — government departments, local authorities, defence establishments and agencies carrying out compulsory social security. Work out which regulations apply, put your workplace health and safety, fire safety, employers' liability insurance, equality (including the Public Sector Equality Duty) and data protection duties in place, and verify everything with a compliance checklist.