The Security Industry Authority has removed recognition of the British Institute of Innkeeping Awarding Body, one of the six organisations previously approved to issue the qualifications that underpin a front-line SIA licence. The SIA served the termination notice on 14 July 2026, requiring BIIAB to stop registering new learners for licence-linked training with immediate effect, and set 10 August 2026 as the date by which it must cease issuing new licence-linked qualifications. Five approved awarding organisations now remain.
Every front-line licence, door supervision, security officer and CCTV, and the qualification framework that sits behind close protection, requires a mandatory qualification from an SIA-approved awarding organisation before you can apply or renew. BIIAB's approved qualifications covered door supervisors, security officers and CCTV operators, including the refresher routes. Anyone booked onto, or relying on, a BIIAB-awarded course now needs to confirm their training provider has moved to one of the five remaining recognised bodies, or a licence application can stall on a qualification the regulator no longer accepts.
The framework this touches is large. The SIA says 158,000 licence-linked security qualifications were issued across all six awarding organisations in the 2025 to 2026 financial year, delivered by around 650 independent training providers. The removal sits within Operation RESOLUTE, the regulator's push against training-centre malpractice, under which the SIA says it carried out 24 unannounced inspections at training centres across England in the last month. For operators and buyers, that is the signal worth reading: the regulator is actively policing the training layer, and a licence resting on a withdrawn awarding body is a compliance exposure to close now rather than later.
