Contracts & Accreditation.
Winning and mobilising work, ACS accreditation, and what happens to officers when a contract changes hands.
Martyn's Law: your regulator is about to regulate your clients too
The SIA becomes the regulator for Martyn's Law, expected in spring 2027. For a security contractor that means two things at once: clients who will need help they have never asked for, and a regulator seeing your work from a new angle.
16 June 2026 · 3 min readMobilising a new contract without a bad first month
Every problem in month one is evidence about you. The same problem in month fourteen is an exception against a known record.
14 April 2026 · 3 min readAssignment instructions that officers actually use
The document that turns a contract into a shift. Most are written once for the client and read by nobody standing on the site.
3 March 2026 · 4 min readTUPE when a security contract changes hands
Officers transfer with the contract, and so does their employment history. The compliance question nobody asks until day one is what you now hold about them.
27 January 2026 · 4 min readThe Approved Contractor Scheme, and whether to join
Voluntary in law and close to mandatory commercially. Most of the work is evidencing what a well-run contractor already does.