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Guidance: Find out how you report training malpractice

Security Industry Authority

February 7
15:23 2023

We take training malpractice very seriously. So do our awarding organisation partners and the qualifications regulatory authorities. Protecting the integrity of the licence, and the credibility of the related qualifications, is essential.

What is training malpractice?

Training malpractice is a deliberate attempt to cheat the training process.

Our official definition of malpractice is any deliberate activity, neglect, default or other practice that compromises the integrity of the assessment process and/or the validity of certificates.

Who should you tell?

You should send a report to the relevant awarding organisation and qualifications regulatory authority. Their compliance departments will carry out an investigation and take action if they need to. They will treat any reports in confidence.

If you send us information about training malpractice, we will send it on to these organisations.

What they will need to know

You will need to tell them:

  • who the names of anyone who you think is involved
  • what - a description of the malpractice
  • where - the training provider you suspect of involvement and the location of any training/assessment sites (some have multiple sites)
  • when the times and dates of the malpractice

They will not be able to investigate unless they have this information.

Awarding organisations

The organisations that offer SIA licence-linked qualifications are:

Qualifications regulatory authorities

The UK qualifications regulators are:

Published 20 November 2020
Last updated 7 February 2023 +show all updates
  1. Removed NOCN from the list of awarding organisations.

  2. First published.

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