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Office Security Must-Haves for UK Workplaces in 2026The UK office has changed a lot over the years, and so have its risks. Hybrid working means fewer people on site on any given day, more visitors and contractors passing through, and more company data travelling between home..

What Should Happen to ID Cards When Staff Leave?When an employee leaves, their ID card should be returned on their last day, deactivated on every system it can open, recorded as recovered, and then securely destroyed. That sounds simple, yet in our experience, the leaver sta..

In-House vs Outsourced ID Card Production: Which Is Right for Your Organisation?Every organisation that issues ID cards face the same decision between buying a printer and producing cards in house, or sending data to a specialist and have finished cards delivered? Both appro..

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 ..