Maintaining your ACS approval
An SIA approved contractor is assessed every year, must inform us of significant changes to the company, and must use the ACS mark correctly.
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SIA approved contractors must undergo regular assessment and must keep us informed of any significant changes to the company.
Read 鈥楶reparing for standard route annual assessments鈥� to understand what the standard route annual assessment involves, when you must complete it, and how to change the date of your assessment.
Read 鈥楬ow to use the ACS accreditation mark鈥� to understand what the conditions and rules of using the ACS accreditation mark.
Use the 鈥楪uidance on transferring between ACS Assessment Schemes鈥� to understand how and when you can transfer between the standard and passport routes to approval.
Use the 鈥楪uidance on business entities and business name changes鈥� to understand how a change to your business may affect its ACS approval.
Use the 鈥楥hange of circumstances form鈥� to tell us about significant changes to your business that are relevant to your ACS approval.
Use the 鈥楢bsence of designated security service contracts policy鈥� to understand what we will do if you no longer provide security services in an activity for which you are approved.
Updates to this page
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The PDF attachment 'ACS approval: Annual assessment guidance' and the HTML attachment 'ACS approval: Guidance on Standard route assessment dates' have both been deleted. Their contents has been combined and updated into a new HTML attachment called 'ACS approval: Preparing for standard route annual assessment'.
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The PDF 'ACS approval: Guidance on using the ACS accreditation mark' has been removed and replaced with an updated HTML file.
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Replaced the 'ACS approval: Explanation of assessment due date' PDF document with the updated HTML version 'ACS approval: Guidance on Standard route assessment dates'.
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Replaced the 'ACS approval: Guidance on transferring between ACS assessment schemes' PDF document with an updated HTML version.
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