Financial services and regulated industries
Regulators such as the FCA and PRA expect companies to confirm the suitability, integrity, and reputation of individuals hired in managerial or money-handling roles. Adverse media screening is crucial as part of ‘fit and proper’ tests that often accompany these positions.
- Banks, lenders and insurers
- Investments firms, financial advisors and anyone FCA regulated
- Senior managers and certified roles under SMCR
Key considerations
- Trusted as the only UK FCA-accredited background screening provider.
- Support due diligence under SMCR and FCA compliance expectations.
- Full auditing documentation and evidence.
- Verify integrity and credibility with public domain information.
Education, sports and child safeguarding
Education providers have a legal and moral duty to protect children under Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance. Adverse Media Checks provide a low-cost way to help meet these compliance expectations.
- Schools, academies and colleges
- Youth clubs, training centres and sports associations
- Teaching, coaching and admin roles with access to children or vulnerable students
Key considerations
- Safeguarding assurance for staff or volunteers.
- Cost-efficient to enable checking within limited budgets.
- Support safer recruitment under DfE and local authority guidelines.
- Results in four hours, with minimal administrative effort.
Care, health and social services
Health and care providers must demonstrate that staff are suitable and that recruitment meets often-changing regulatory standards, in order to safeguard vulnerable people and maintain public trust.
- Care homes, healthcare providers, and social care agencies
- Carers, nurses, care support staff and clinicians
- Other roles involving vulnerable adults or patients
Key considerations
- Highlight risk through past media coverage of misconduct or neglect.
- Align with Care Quality Commission ‘fit and proper’ person standards.
- Affordable scalability and ATS integration for regular checks across large workforces.
- We are highly trusted and accredited to the highest standards, with 25+ years’ experience.
Infrastructure, utilities and Government
Those working within public infrastructure or utility services hold significant responsibility for public safety, service reliability, and trust. A single reputational incident can undermine stakeholder confidence and regulatory compliance, so adverse media checks are important in confirming employee standards of conduct.
- Sectors such as energy, water, telecoms, and transport
- Those with responsibility for public assets, data integrity, or essential service delivery
- Senior leaders, contractors, engineers, and operational staff
- Compliance, HR, and procurement regulated by Ofgem, Ofcom, and public procurement frameworks
Key considerations
- Results within four hours for continuous and large-scale screening across projects
- Helps display compliance with Government and regulator standards for critical service providers.
Reduce operational risk and potential harm to public confidence and credibility.
We are highly trusted and accredited to the highest standards, with 25+ years’ experience.
Policing, security and public protection
Public protection industries face high reputational and operational risk. Public confidence depends on employing people with clean, trustworthy backgrounds.
- Police forces
- Security firms
- Staff in roles requiring public trust or site access clearance
Key considerations
- Identify media that can compromise public confidence or licensing.
- Reduce risk of insider threat of infiltration in sensitive roles.
- Support Government security guidance.
- Individual and high-volume screening, with results in four hours.
Media and communications
Media and communications organisations must protect brand credibility and public trust by ensuring public-facing staff and brand representatives have no adverse public history.
- Broadcasters, news agencies, PR and marketing firms
- Brand ambassadors and spokespersons
- Anyone representing an organisation publicly or in high-visibility positions
Key considerations
- Confirm the integrity of individuals in high-visibility roles.
- Rapid, global results for fast-paced hiring and production cycles.
- Search over 45,000 global media sources.