Category: Compliance
Introducing Landlord Sanctions Checks: What You Need to Know
Sarah Croft
March 11, 2025
From May 2025, letting agents need to make sanction checks on landlords and tenants. Automated checks can speed up this process and offer a reliable way to ensure compliance, combined with a Right to Rent identity and face match check. Read on to find out more.
Companies House Identity Verification: An Overview of ACSPs and How Identity Verification Services Can Help
Sarah Croft
March 5, 2025
Companies House are introducing mandatory identity verification aimed at enhancing transparency and reducing fraud within the UK’s corporate sector. Organisations subject to AML supervision must prepare for these changes and ensure compliance with the new verification requirements and register as an ACSP. Find out how we can help streamline this process and ensure accurate, efficient identity verification.
Biometric Residence Permits come to an end
Guest Writer
October 31, 2024
The Home Office has confirmed that Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs) will no longer be issued or replaced from today (31st October 2024) and all UK new visa applicants will be issued with an eVisa. Find out what this means to employee and employers.
Making Right to Work checks throughout your supply chain: an update to guidance
Tony Machin
October 21, 2024
We’re often asked by employers about their responsibilities around Right to Work checks when they’re working with sub-contractors or someone who is self-employed. In September, the Home Office Right to Work guidance was updated to address this question. This blog explains more.
ISO 27701 Certification: A Milestone in Data Privacy Protection
Omon Ilaboya
October 3, 2024
TrustID has been certified for ISO 27701. This international standard for Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) demonstrates how committed we are to safeguarding our customers’ personal data.
TrustID gains ISO 27001:2022 certification
Sarah Croft
March 19, 2024
TrustID has been certified for ISO 27001:2022! This latest certification evidences how seriously we take protecting our customers’ data. Read on to find out more from our Compliance Manager.
Fines increase for businesses and landlords who knowingly support illegal migrants
Tony Machin
March 2, 2024
Under the latest government plans, the level of civil penalties for employers and landlords have been tripled. The new penalty schemes come into force in February 2024.
TrustID is ISO 9001:2015 certified
Sarah Croft
November 13, 2023
TrustID is ISO 9001 certified! This demonstrates that our team is committed to providing a high level of quality in our services and that we’re continually seeking ways to improve. Read on to find out more from our Compliance Manager.
What’s been the impact on recruitment since Right to Work checks went digital?
Sarah Croft
July 17, 2023
The TrustID team has recently been out and about. We’ve loved engaging with HR and talent leaders from organisations of all sizes and across multiple sectors at the recent Festival of Work and HR Technologies shows. Here are some of the things we discovered over the course of our conversations, and some of the lessons that have been learnt around Right to Work along the way.
TrustID Become a Certified IDSP Approved Against UK Government Digital Schemes
Tony Machin
June 15, 2022
TrustID is a certified digital identity service provider (IDSP) for Right to Work (RtW), Right to Rent (RtR) and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks under the UK Digital Identity & Attributes Trust Framework.
