notes document - Security Industry Authority

5b. Is that the Post Office?The Post Office is one of the organisations we are talking to at the moment, but there are arange of potential providers. We are assessing what our requirements are and what each ofthose organisations can provide.6a. Are individuals still going to be expected to complete an accredited qualificationin the future?Yes, individuals will have to demonstrate competence by completing an accreditedqualification.6b. How will that process [of verifying qualifications] be managed between AwardingOrganisations and either the regulator or the Mediated Access Partner, there is a riskbecause certificates can be forged?Currently, when an application comes through to us, one of the checks we do is that theindividual has the qualification. The applicant enters the information on the application formbut we do not rely solely on that information, we verify their qualification by checking on thequalifications database. Our planning assumption is that this would be one of the initialchecks the company or MAP would carry out. The change will be bringing access to thequalifications database further down the process chain. What the awarding organisationsdo will not change, it is who is checking the database that changes.7. There is going to be a burden or a cost shift to businesses, and the MAP won’t beregistering the individual without a fee. Will consideration be given to the cost of theinitial registration being significantly reduced to take account of that factor?Our commitment is that the overall burden remains at the least the same or is reduced interms of the whole of regulation. I have discussed duplication in the current system; byremoving that duplication we can reduce burden. In terms of mediated access there will bea transaction cost, which in theory could be paid by the individual to the MAP, what we’relooking at is to what extent the regulator would be able to absorb some or all of thattransaction cost. It has be considered in a business case but we are not making animmediate assumption that that cost will be borne entirely by the individual. One of the keydrivers for these changes is about reducing the amount of processing the regulator is doingand the amount of cost incurred by the regulator. We believe all of the improvements thatwe’re describing today take cost out of the application process, and because we are a costneutral organisation that cost saving will be passed on, where we can, to the industry.8. With the current process the licence has been issued on the basis that all thecriteria have been met; we only employ someone if they have a licence. Would theemployer be required to carry out checks at the application stage? I can understandif it is a brand new employee but if it is a subscription would we need to carry out thechecks?The expectation is that for those licensed at the point that we cut over to the individualregistration their existing licence would passport into that arrangement and that only whenthey reach the point of expiry of that licence will they drop into the subscription model. Wewill have already done, as the regulator, those checks for that individual and in effect theywill then be subject to the ongoing checks that anyone registered in the future regime willbe subject to. The five year point I mentioned in my presentation would be to update thephotograph and re-issue the token. We will still be running our revocation, suspension andintelligence gathering processes.9. You are pushing a huge amount of the administrative work and checks on to thebusinesses so the cost of the licensing process to businesses is not just the chequethat they write to you but also the cost of what they are doing in-house. One thingyou might want to think of doing is if there is a cost that the MAPs that you use thatPage 10 of 19