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AGENDA ISO9001: 2008 AUDIT AND SECURITY TEAM MEMBER WINS ANNUAL QUALITY RECOGNITION AWARD! - December 2009 - Agenda has held the ISO9001 Quality Management Certification since 1999 and was re-audited by ISOQAR on 16th November 2009 to ISO9001: 2008 including BS7858 Security Screening and BS8470 Destruction of Confidential Materials requirements...more

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED IN RAIDS - December 2009 - A night club in Leeds has been served with a civil penalty notice for employing illegal workers when a Jamaican who overstayed her visa and a failed asylum seeker from Nigeria were found when  26 door staff were checked at 13 premises during raids in Leeds, which involved the UK Border Agency for the first time...more

GOVERNMENT RELEASES NEW BASELINE PERSONNEL SECURITY STANDARD (BPSS) - December 2009 - The Cabinet Office has released their latest version of the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) version 2.1 - Oct 2009 in association with version 3.0 of the HMG Security Policy Framework.  The BPSS is a set of guidelines for the effective pre-employment screening of personnel...more

DATA AND INFORMATION LOSS CONCERNS GROW! - December 2009 - Organisations are becoming increasingly aware and worried about the loss of information, for example many have implemented rules restricting the use of social networking sites. Security firm Scansafe reported that 20% more organisations are blocking social web sites than were 6 months ago, with the primary concerns being loss of sensitive data, malware and bandwidth use...more

CHARITIES URGED TO CRB CHECK TRUSTEES - November 2009 - The Charity Commission’s report issued in October 2009, Charities Back on Track 2008-09 said: “We remain concerned that the way charities manage procedures for safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries continues to be a key issue.” The watchdog removed or suspended 30 such trustees last year, three times as many as the year before....more

PASSPORT HEIST GANG JAILED, STOLEN PASSPORTS AND VISA’S UNRECOVERED - November 2009 - In October 2009 five men were jailed for their involvement in the theft of passports worth £2.5 million.  Boxes containing around 3,000 blank passports and visas destined for embassies abroad were stolen in the raid in July last year. ...more

ISO27001 RE-CERTIFICATION SUCCESS FOR AGENDA - October 2009 - Agenda is pleased to announce that following a full day audit by the British Standards Institute on Monday 28th September 2009 Agenda has been successfully reassessed and re-certified to ISO27001 (ISO/IEC 27001:2005) Information Security Management System...more

NEW SECURITY SUITE UP AND RUNNING - October 2009 - Despite a couple of setbacks the security team are set to move into their new offices and will be fully operational before Christmas...more

INTERACTIVE CRIME MAPS LAUNCHED - October 2009 - An interactive online map allowing people to compare crime figures across England and Wales has been launched, all 43 police forces, including the City of London Police, launched website crime maps and the new site pulls this information together...more

VETTING AND BARRING SCHEME LAUNCHED! - October 2009 - The new Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS came into force on the 12th October 2009 and will be delivered under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006...more

AGENDA LAUNCHES NEW BASELINE PERSONNEL SECURITY STANDARD (BPSS) SCREENING OPTIONS - September 2009 - Since the new version of the Government’s Baseline Personnel Screening Standard (BPSS) was issued in March 2009 it has become clear that Government institutions and those providing services to Government organisations and departments need to comply with the BPSS...more

GOVERNMENT PUBLISHES NEW SECURITY POLICY FRAMEWORK - September 2009 - This useful new security guidance framework allows for much of this material to be placed in the public domain leading Sir Gus O’Donnell to say that the hoped that by allowing greater access to the framework that it would lead to great security awareness, the sharing of best practice and transparency about the aims and objectives for the Government with regards to national security...more

FAKE FOREIGN PASSPORTS CONCERNS - August 2009 - With the banks raising concerns with the Government over increasing numbers of fake foreign passports it is even more important to verify these important identification documents at source...more

THE VETTING AND BARRING SCHEME – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW! - August 2009 - Currently the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) is making all decisions on barring individuals from working with vulnerable groups, based upon the criteria set down in the Protection of Vulnerable Adults Act (POVA) and Protection of Children Act (POCA). However, from October 12th 2009 this will change and all barring decisions will come under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act, which created the Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS)...more

CRIMINAL RECORD BUREAU EFFECTIVENESS CONCERNS CALMED BY THE HOME OFFICE - August 2009 - Despite the fact that over 1500 individuals were mistakenly given a clean record or accused of more serious offences than they had actually committed the Home Office pointed out that 99.96 per cent of the CRB’s certificates were accurate over the past year...more

ISO9001: ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL AUDIT! - July 2009 - Agenda is pleased to announce that it has just passed the latest 6 monthly audit by ISO9001, this accreditation is fundamental to the quality management processes and underpins our commitment to continually improving customer service and adding value...more

ONE IN TWENTY QUALIFICATIONS ARE MIS-QUOTED! - June 2009 - A review of Agenda's screening services has revealed that 5% of all qualification checks come back with serious concerns, these range from claimed higher grades than were actually achieved through to never completing the course. This can be a major issue where the qualification is a requirement for the job being offered...more

GOVERNMENT INTRODUCES REVISED BASELINE PERSONNEL SECURITY STANDARD (BPSS) - May 2009 - In March 2009 the Government issued version 2 of the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) aimed at providing a framework that must be applied for pre-employment screening for all Government departments and individuals that may come into contact with "government assets"...more

WHAT ARE THE TOP TEN SECURITY THREATS TO ACADEMIA? - May 2009 - Agenda was proud to be invited to present at the prestigious Association of University Chief Security Officers (AUCSO) annual meeting in York in April. During the meeting a survey of the top ten security threats was conducted by Agenda amongst the delegates...more

AGENDA SECURITY SERVICES DIRECTOR HAS 2 PART EDITORIAL IN RISK UK MAGAZINE - April 2009 - In a two part series in the March and April 2009 Security publication Risk UK, Norman Mortell - Director of Agenda Security Services looks at the background checking of employees and applicants...more

AGENDA SECURITY SERVICES WEB SITE UPDATED - April 2009 - Besides the usual monthly news updates on the security services web site Agenda has improved the home page by adding additional information such as the 10 free services that Agenda provides in all pre-employment screenings...more

AGENDA ADDS VALUE TO INTERNET MINING AND OPEN SOURCE SEARCHES - April 2009 - Deep web and Open Source checks have just taken on a new dimension at Agenda, a new addition to its Positive Open Source Intelligence (pOSINT) check is the inclusion of a new e-mail address search process...more

AGENDA VALUES RECOGNITION PROGRAMME LAUNCHED - March 2009 - Since development of the Agenda Customer Values in December 2008 we have been hard at work developing new and innovative ways to add value to the services that we provide to our customers. Several groups have been set up looking at aspects such as customer satisfaction and our business development team has been busy talking to or customers to hear their thoughts, ideas and suggestions...more

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL ISO27001 ASSESSMENT FOR AGENDA - March 2009 - The Agenda team is proud of its continued certification against the ISO27001 Information Security Management System Standard. A full day audit was conducted on 13th March 2009 during which no non-conformities were raised...more

SECURITY IN THE BIOSCIENCE INDUSTRY - February 2009 - Public and private sector companies and organisations working within the bioscience industry have for many years been acutely aware of the need for appropriate security measures to be in place for the benefit of their staff, stakeholders, and not least the general public...more

IAT ACCREDITED COURSES NOW AVAILABLE FROM AGENDA SECURITY SERVICES - 2009 DATES RELEASED - January 2009 - Agenda Security Services are pleased to announce a series of 2009 dates to cover the UK and Ireland with their well attended security training course...more

POSITIVE OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE - POSINT - January 2009 - Anybody can use Internet search engines to find information on the Internet, usually limited only by the time and access required to obtain the desired information. However, Agenda Security Services has developed an intelligent search solution that saves its clients time and effort...more

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