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The UK's Most Security-Exposed Industries in 2026Most security conversations still get split down the middle. There are the cybersecurity worries about phishing and ransomware, and there's the facilities team worrying about who can walk through the front door. Our new resear..

Martyn's Law in Schools and Universities: A Practical Starting PointThere are 24,499 schools in England educating more than 8.9 million pupils and most of them reach the same threshold at some point each term. At a parents' evening, a nativity play, sports day or an open eve..

Construction Site ID: Meeting CSCS RequirementsThere are now 2.3 million cards carrying the CSCS logo in circulation across UK construction, and the way sites check them has changed completely. In January 2026, CSCS Smart Check recorded its 60 millionth scan, and in the firs..

How to Stop Your ID System Becoming a Liability Most ID card systems start out as a sensible, proportionate way to control who comes through the door. The problem is that they rarely stay that way on their own. Staff turn over, printers get replaced with whatever was chea..

There are now more than 1,300 multi-academy trusts operating in England, running close to 11,000 academies between them. The largest single trust, United Learning, oversees 92 schools across the country. Every one of those trusts asks the same operational question as they ..

Exam season puts a university's ID card system under more pressure than almost any other point in the academic year. Thousands of candidates need to be identifiable, and quickly, by invigilators who may never have met them before and the consequences of getting it wrong ran..

A missing staff badge looks like a small administrative headache where someone fills in a form, pays a small replacement fee, and waits a day or two for a new card. In a hospital, GP surgery or care home, it can be so much more than that. An ID card in healthcare isn't ju..

How to manage student ID card production during enrolment Enrolment week is the start of the academic year when tens of thousands of people who have never set foot on campus before have to have a new student card to provide identity and access from the first day. It can b..

A hospital is one of the few buildings that people can walk into without being formally stopped. Patients arrive with families in tow and often in emergency situations. Deliveries, agency staff and service workers move through the corridors all day, making it a very open ..

Choosing between a single-sided and dual-sided ID card printer comes down to your card design, print volume and quality. Both can offer enhanced security features and provide high-quality ID cards for your organisation. Here's our guide to choosing the right one for your ne..

The conversation about AI fake ID usually focuses on nightclubs and age checks. The bigger, quieter problem is what happens when someone uses a convincingly generated employee or contractor badge to walk into your building or as a trust signal to interact with your customers..

Working out which are genuinely the safest university in the UK isn't straightforward as league tables don't cover it, and local crime statistics only tell part of the story.To get a clearer picture, we built a safety index for universities across the UK, ranking 124 institu..