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Validation Board

As with most things, The Validation Board has had to SyI Recruitment
adapt in 2020 to account the challenges presented
by the Covid-19 pandemic. Once the initial lockdown Comparison 2018-2020
was put in place on 23rd March 2020, it was clear 2018 2019 2020
that significant changes would need to be made in
order for business-as-usual to continue. At a time Jan 23 89 95
when membership applications were continuing to Feb 66 43 84
significantly increase month on month, it was decided
that, for the foreseeable future, VB meetings would be Mar 73 64 186
held virtually, something which had not, up until that
point, been done on a regular basis. Apr 38 56 110
May 30 68 65
In order to address this ever-increasing volume of
applications, it was also apparent that meetings Jun 65 86 128
would have to be held twice each month. The risk of
not doing this would have meant that the Membership Jul 41 48 124
Registrar was likely to become overwhelmed by the Aug 53 34 78
sheer volume of work required to get all applications
ready. Sep 53 80 76

Oct 64 54 71
Each month saw between 60 and 100 applications
reviewed and validated by the VB. The result was that Nov 41 45 49
an incredible 1,171 new members were recruited
across all membership levels. 2020 became the first Dec 39 49 105
year since the Security Institute was founded that over TOTALS 586 716 1171
1000 new members had been recruited in a single
12-month period.

The first two months of 2021 has shown a continuance of the increasing membership trend
with an additional 215 members being recruited. A significant milestone was achieved at the
end of March 2021 when a membership figure of 4000 was reached and passed.

During the year, the Validation Board Working Group, under the leadership of John Davies,
were instrumental in conducting, and making recommendations to the Board, a number of
projects including:
• The creation of a knowledge and skills matrix for VB members to ensure that specialists
were available to advise upon the widest volume of sectors within the security community.
• A comparison of police and military courses to ensure fairness and parity when awarding
validation points.
• A review of validation points able to be awarded from educational courses offered by other
security membership organisations not currently included in the Scoring Matrix e.g. The
Security Institute of Ireland.

2020 was a challenging year for the VB, but one which brought its own rewards and successes.
At a time was businesses and organisations across the UK suffered in a whole raft of ways
because of the pandemic, growth of membership into the Institute thrived, providing even
more evidence that the Security Institute has become the security membership organisation of
choice within the United Kingdom.

Anyone wishing to enquire about joining the Validation Board should contact Paula Stanbridge.

You can read the full Validation Board report in the Annual Report.

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