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Reporting labour exploitation: who to tell and what they need to know.
How to appeal against our decision to refuse your application.
Guidance on how charities and community interest companies in the UK can apply for funding from the Security Industry Authority’s grant for good causes.
How to know whether the operatives you deploy are employed or self-employed, and what this means for tax and national insurance.
Some SIA front line licence holders are trained in physical intervention. This page recaps information from that training.
SIA licence dispensation: what the rules are and how to ask for permission to issue more LDNs.
Find out how SIA licensing applies to someone using a bodycam or headcam.
Tools and guidance that you will need in order to become an SIA approved contractor.
SIA regulation: how the SIA enforces the law and what the penalties are for breaking it.
Guidance explaining what security features to look for when checking SIA licence cards are valid.
Our specification documents form the basis of the qualifications linked to SIA licensing.
Reporting training malpractice: who to tell and what they need to know.
Find out how SIA licensing applies to event staff.
A description of some of the benefits of the SIA's Approved Contractor Scheme.
You can buy the British standards at a 30% discount.
The SIA's stakeholder forum: what it is and who is in it.
Rolled-up holiday pay: what it is, when it can be used and what SIA approved contractors must do if they use it.
How we handle licence applications for people who have changed their gender.
SIA licence-linked training: why you must take the training, who is involved and how we keep it up to date.
Sub-contracting to a company that is not an SIA approved contractor: what the rules are and how you ask for permission.
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