A practical framework that helps you define policy and decision criteria so your screening and vetting is consistent, understandable and defensible.
“When screening policies lack clear structures and decision points, teams can make inconsistent choices and struggle to explain outcomes. This framework gives you a structured policy and decision model so you can set clear standards, guide consistent actions and support defensible results across your organisation.”
Expert Built Screening and Vetting Policy Guidance
Developed by Graham and Vivianne Johnson, industry leading screening experts with nearly 20 years' experience conducting pre-employment checks across UK industries. This expert-developed framework gives you a complete, structured screening policy with decision tools, risk assessment methodology, and compliance guidance ready to adopt.
Covers the complete policy structure: role risk assessment scoring, screening check types for identity, right to work, employment history, DBS, credit, references, and overseas checks, adverse information handling, decision matrices, escalation procedures, GDPR compliance, record keeping requirements, and ready-to-use adoption and decision record templates.
Every section is built from real operational scenarios the Johnsons encountered across thousands of screening cases, giving you practical guidance that works in the real world.
Perfect for HR directors, compliance managers, screening team leads, operations managers, and any employer building a defensible screening process.
✔ Created by recognised screening specialists with proven operational expertise.
✔ Covers all industries and all pre-employment check types in one framework.
✔ Includes ready-to-use templates for policy adoption and decision recording.
✔ Risk assessment methodology with scoring matrix built from real experience.
✔ Adverse information handling guidance with decision authority escalation levels.
Structure your screening. Defend every decision. Hire with confidence.
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Why We Built This
We created this framework because most organisations either have no formal screening policy or rely on patchwork guidance that falls apart when decisions get difficult.
From 2006 to 2024, we operated our own screening businesses, conducting thousands of pre-employment checks across multiple industries. We saw first-hand how organisations struggled with inconsistent screening, undocumented decisions, missing risk assessments, and audit files that couldn't withstand scrutiny from regulators or clients.
What Makes This Different
You'll get a complete policy structure with role risk scoring, a decision matrix for adverse information, clear escalation procedures, and templates you can adopt immediately. This covers every check type from identity and DBS to credit, overseas, and social media screening.
Every section reflects real situations we handled, the difficult decisions, the edge cases where standard guidance didn't provide an answer, and the audit challenges where documentation made the difference between passing and failing.
This isn't written by consultants who've studied screening theory. It's built by us, practitioners who lived it for nearly 20 years. Expert-developed, UKRLP registered. Screening policy built from operational reality.
Built for professionals responsible for establishing or improving pre-employment screening processes across any UK industry.
You own the screening policy but need a structured, defensible framework that works across all roles and satisfies auditors. This gives you a complete policy structure with risk scoring, decision tools, and governance guidance you can adopt immediately.
You need to ensure screening is consistent, proportionate, and documented across teams and locations. This framework provides the risk categorisation, escalation procedures, and record keeping standards that demonstrate due diligence at every level.
You handle screening daily and need clear guidance for difficult decisions, adverse information, and edge cases. This framework gives you decision matrices, adverse information handling processes, and quick reference tools that support confident, consistent screening.
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 framework is designed to be clear and practical, even if you are starting from scratch. It explains each element step by step so you can build a compliant screening policy with confidence.
Yes. The framework includes documentation standards, decision record templates, and governance guidance so you can present a structured, defensible screening process whenever auditors or clients require it.
Yes. You will find a full adverse information handling process, a risk assessment decision matrix, and clear escalation procedures that guide you through complex situations with documented rationale.
Yes. The framework provides structured risk categorisation, proportionate screening requirements by role, and ready-to-use templates that give you a consistent, repeatable process you can rely on.
The framework is delivered as a professionally formatted PDF document available for immediate download after purchase. You can view it on any device, print it for reference, or share it digitally within your organisation.