A complete toolkit designed to help you create clear, consistent and defensible screening and vetting governance frameworks.
“When governance arrangements are unclear, screening decisions can vary widely between teams, creating gaps in accountability and risk. This toolkit gives you ready-to-use templates, frameworks and guidance so you can strengthen governance, support consistent decisions and make your screening processes more effective and audit ready.”
Expert Built UK Screening & Vetting Governance Guidance
Developed by Graham and Vivianne Johnson, industry-leading screening experts with nearly 20 years' experience building and managing compliant vetting operations across the UK security sector. This expert-developed toolkit gives you six comprehensive resources to establish, govern, and audit-proof your entire screening process.
Covers the complete governance framework: the UK Vetting and Screening Handbook, DBS Employer Decision Framework, Right to Work Compliance Toolkit, Screening and Vetting Policy and Decision Framework, Applicant Screening Templates and Example Forms Pack, and the Acceptable Documents in Screening and Vetting UK Guide.
Every resource includes practical guidance drawn from the Johnsons' extensive operational experience, giving you proven methods for handling real screening challenges, governance decisions, and audit preparation.
Perfect for screening managers, compliance officers, HR directors, operations managers, and security contract leads responsible for vetting governance.
✓ Seven expert-developed resources covering every area of UK screening governance.
✓ Practical templates and example forms ready to implement from day one.
✓ Decision frameworks that bring consistency to complex vetting scenarios.
✓ Policy structures designed to withstand NSI, SSAIB, and ACS audit scrutiny.
✓ Built from nearly 20 years of real-world UK screening operations.
Govern your screening. Standardise your process. Pass every audit.
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Why We Built This Toolkit
We created this governance toolkit because most organisations have screening processes but very few have the policies, frameworks, and documentation to prove those processes work under scrutiny.
From 2006 to 2024, we operated our own screening businesses, conducting thousands of background checks across the UK security sector. We saw first-hand how inconsistent policies led to failed audits, how missing templates caused delays, and how organisations struggled to demonstrate governance when inspectors arrived.
What Makes This Different
You'll receive six interconnected resources that work together as a complete governance system. From policy frameworks that define your screening standards to decision tools that bring consistency to DBS outcomes, right to work checks, and document acceptance, every resource addresses a specific governance gap.
Every template, framework, and handbook in this toolkit comes from real operational challenges we faced and solved. These are the exact structures we built and refined over nearly two decades of screening practice and audit preparation.
This isn't assembled by consultants reviewing standards. It's built by us, practitioners who governed screening operations for nearly 20 years. Expert developed, UKRLP registered.
Built for professionals responsible for establishing, managing, and evidencing compliant screening and vetting operations.
You oversee day-to-day screening but need documented policies and standardised templates to ensure consistency. This toolkit gives you the governance structure to manage your team's output and evidence compliance at every stage.
You are accountable for hiring compliance across the organisation and need clear frameworks your teams can follow. This toolkit provides the decision tools and policy documents to standardise screening and reduce risk across every department.
You need to demonstrate governance when auditors arrive and prove your screening meets industry standards. This toolkit equips you with audit-ready documentation, decision frameworks, and policy structures that satisfy NSI, SSAIB, and ACS inspections.
Our courses are independently accredited by a recognised CPD body so every completed module converts into verifiable CPD hours you can record.
That means your team’s learning is not just a checkbox — it is formal professional development that holds up in audits, appraisals and regulatory reviews.
Certificates are issued instantly on completion in downloadable PDF format, include course duration and CPD hours, and are produced to a standard that employers, compliance teams and auditors expect.
VH Courses is listed on the UK Register of Learning Providers (UKRLP), a public register that confirms our status as a legitimate training provider.
This registration demonstrates our ongoing commitment to governed, traceable, high-quality learning provision and makes it easier for corporate procurement, public bodies and partners to verify who we are.
In short, it removes doubt for buyers and supports procurement and audit checks.
This toolkit is designed to guide you through every step clearly. Each resource explains its purpose and how to apply it, giving you the confidence to build a compliant governance framework even if you are starting from scratch.
Yes. Every resource is structured to produce the documentation and evidence that auditors expect. The policy frameworks, decision tools, and templates are built specifically to demonstrate governance during NSI, SSAIB, and ACS inspections.
Yes. The DBS Employer Decision Framework and Screening Policy Framework include structured guidance for handling disclosures, assessing risk proportionately, and documenting your decisions clearly so your reasoning is always defensible.
Yes. The toolkit provides consistent templates, decision criteria, and policy documents that ensure every member of your team follows the same compliant process regardless of location, contract, or individual interpretation.
All six resources are delivered as downloadable digital files available immediately after purchase. The documents are provided in standard formats that you can open, edit, and customise to suit your organisation's specific requirements.