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Licence Ready is a security-sector assurance business built to connect venues, security companies and operatives through clearer requirements, trusted evidence and visible deployment decisions.
Evidence that can be understood and trusted
Recognition for responsible companies and operatives
Visibility across the complete security supply chain
Continuous readiness rather than one-off checking
Our aim is not to add another badge. It is to make legitimate, professional security delivery easier to prove and harder to imitate.
Why we exist
Private security is delivered by people and companies carrying real responsibility. Too often, the evidence behind that delivery is scattered across emails, spreadsheets, screenshots and folders, while the venue sees only the company at the top of the contract.
An SIA licence confirms that an operative is licensed for regulated activity. It does not, by itself, explain their work history, role-specific experience, current competence evidence, site preparation or suitability for every assignment.
Licences, right-to-work permission, insurance, qualifications and other records can expire or change. A check completed months ago cannot safely be treated as a permanent answer.
A venue may appoint one security company while several partner companies and many operatives contribute to the deployment. Requirements and evidence can become fragmented as they pass through that chain.
Companies and operatives that invest in training, lawful employment, current evidence and professional standards should be able to demonstrate that difference instead of competing on price against organisations that cannot.
The cost of getting it wrong
It can expose an operative, employer, supplier and client to legal, financial, contractual and reputational consequences. Licence Ready cannot remove those responsibilities, but it can make the evidence position and emerging gaps much harder to overlook.
Carrying out licensable conduct without the appropriate current licence is a criminal offence. Supplying an unlicensed operative can also be an offence. The consequences can include prosecution, fines, court orders, lost contracts and lasting reputational damage.
The employer remains responsible for carrying out a prescribed check and retaining the required evidence. Under the current Home Office code, civil penalties start at £45,000 per illegal worker for a first breach and £60,000 per worker for a repeat breach within three years. Serious cases can also lead to criminal sanctions.
A company name and website do not prove current insurance, ownership, governance, capability or lawful workforce controls. Missing or outdated evidence can expose buyers, lead contractors and responsible people to contractual, operational and reputational risk.
If venue instructions, role requirements and briefing evidence do not reach every supplier and operative, the final deployment may look complete while important gaps remain unseen.
Licence Ready supports evidence management and assurance. It does not replace prescribed right-to-work checks, the SIA register, legal advice, recruitment decisions or the responsibilities of an employer, supplier, venue or responsible person.
A changing security environment
The sector is being asked to demonstrate more than whether a document once existed. Qualifications are under review, public-protection duties are developing and clients increasingly need a defensible view across complex supplier chains.
The SIA is consulting on proposed changes to licence-linked qualifications and training. The proposals include new qualification content for 2027, stronger assurance of English-language ability, security-specific first aid, refreshed conflict-management and counter-terrorism content, and possible changes to licence conditions and licence integration. These are proposals and may change before implementation.
The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 is expected to come into force in spring 2027, with the SIA as regulator. Certain premises and events will need appropriate public-protection procedures, and enhanced-tier premises and qualifying events will have additional duties. The responsible person retains the legal responsibility.
The answer cannot simply be another spreadsheet or another document request. The industry needs requirements, source evidence, verification status and deployment decisions to remain connected and understandable.
A person or company may be suitable for one role, venue or Scheme and not another. Licence Ready is designed to compare the available evidence with the actual requirement rather than award a generic badge.
Read the SIA consultation, the SIA’s Martyn’s Law guidance and the Home Office right-to-work guidance.
Better evidence should reward the companies and operatives doing things properly, not create more hiding places for those who are not.
How we intend to contribute
Licence Ready gives each part of the security chain the view it needs while preserving ownership, consent and human responsibility.
The Operative Passport brings identity, licence status, five-year work history, qualifications, learning and SKEB evidence together. The operative controls sharing and carries the record between companies and projects.
The Company Passport gives clients a structured view of company identity, insurance, governance, capability, workforce controls and assurance status. Payment alone never creates verified status.
A venue or end user can define a Scheme, share it with security partners and see the companies and operatives intended to deliver against it, including subcontract layers.
The Deployment Record connects the requirement, participating companies, assigned operatives and evidence position so the decision is not reduced to a final spreadsheet or verbal assurance.
Clearer evidence allows buyers to distinguish responsible companies and prepared operatives. That supports fairer procurement, stronger professional recognition and less room for non-compliant practice to remain hidden.
Our role
Licence Ready does not issue SIA licences, decide whether Martyn’s Law applies to a premises, guarantee legal compliance or make automatic deployment decisions.
We provide a structured way to define the requirement, connect the relevant company and operative evidence, show verification status and retain the position behind the decision. Responsibility remains with the people and organisations legally and operationally accountable.
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If you represent a venue, security company or the people working across the sector, talk to us about what better evidence and visibility should look like in practice.
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