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Guidance

Plan your ACS assessment

Guidance and templates that will help you to plan your assessment.

From:
Security Industry Authority
Published
28 September 2020
Last updated
1415 OctoberApril 20222025 — See all updates

Documents

ACS assessment: Assessor guide

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ACS assessment: Licence Management guide

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ACS assessment: Visit plan template

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ACS assessment: Visit plan guidance

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ACS assessment: Visit plan example

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ACS assessors should plan their assessment to ensure that it covers everything it needs to.

Use the ‘Assessor guide’ to better understand the ACS standard and how the applicant can demonstrate conformance to it.

Use the ‘Licence Management guide’ to understand what you should consider when assessing companies that use or wish to use our Licence Management service.

Use the ‘Visit plan template’ to plan your ACS assessment visit.

Use the ‘Visit plan guidance’ to understand how to complete your ACS assessment visit plan.

Use the ‘Visit plan example’ to see a completed example of an ACS assessment visit plan.

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Published 28 September 2020
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2025-04-15 16:51
Replaced the ‘ACS assessment: Assessor guide’ document with an updated version.

2022-10-14 10:00
Updated the document ‘ACS assessment: Assessor guide’.

2022-08-26 15:57
Replaced the ‘ACS assessment: Assessor guide’ document with the correct version.

2022-08-26 09:53
Updated the document ‘ACS assessment: Assessor guide’.