Inside The Hub: Platform, Training and Consultancy Unpacked
Inside The Hub: Platform, Training and Consultancy Unpacked
If you have come across Vetting Hub recently and found yourself wondering what a subscription actually looks like in practice, this post is for you. Not a sales pitch. A plain explanation of what is inside The Hub, why each element exists, and why the whole thing was built the way it was.
We launched Vetting Hub in 2025 after two decades running National Vetting Solutions. We processed hundreds of thousands of vetting files. We caught identity fraud, identified forged documents, sat in regulatory audits and managed the kind of complex disclosure decisions that no textbook fully prepares you for. When we made the decision to close National Vetting Solutions in 2024, we spent months asking ourselves one question: what was the most useful thing we could do with everything those twenty years had taught us?
The answer was not to go back to processing files. It was to build something that put all of that hard-won practical knowledge directly into the hands of the HR Directors, Compliance Managers, Risk Managers and Business Owners who are now responsible for getting employment screening right, and who are trying to do so without the level of specialist support they actually need.
The result is The Hub. Here is what it is.
Your own Dedicated Company Hub
Every Vetting Hub subscription includes a Dedicated Company Hub built specifically for your organisation. It is not a shared system and it does not look like anyone else's. From the moment your organisation joins, The Hub belongs to you.
Administrators access a dedicated dashboard where they can enrol staff, assign courses, monitor individual training progress and generate compliance reports at any time. CPD completion certificates are issued automatically every time a course is finished, and all training records are stored securely in one central location. The platform works on any device through a standard browser. No app, no technical knowledge required, no complicated setup process. Everything is live and ready from day one.
For a Compliance Manager who has ever been asked to produce evidence of staff training at short notice, the difference this makes is immediate. Instead of hunting through email threads and shared drives trying to piece together a picture of who has been trained on what, you open the dashboard and it is all there. Timestamped, certified and ready to be presented to an auditor, an inspector or a tribunal without hesitation.
CPD certified training built from real operational experience
This is the part that separates The Hub from every generic compliance training platform on the market.
Every course in the Vetting Hub library has been written and delivered by Graham and me. Not by academics. Not by people who have studied employment screening from a distance. By two practitioners who spent twenty years processing real vetting files, detecting real fraud and defending real audits across some of the UK's most demanding regulated sectors. Both of us trained as BS7858 Certified Trainers. We have sat on both sides of the audit table. The courses we have built reflect that.
The current library covers Employment Screening Essentials, DBS Checks, Right to Work compliance, BPSS screening, BS7858 audit readiness, Anti-Money Laundering, GDPR and data protection in screening, defensible screening decisions, digital identity verification under GPG45, social media screening, employment screening fraud, AI and deepfake threats in recruitment, reference fraud, and vetting contractors and third parties. Every course is around two to three hours long. Every course is independently CPD certified, registration number 0006126, and listed with the UK Register of Learning Providers.
The library is not static. New courses and resources are added regularly as legislation changes, new threats emerge and new compliance obligations come into force. Everything added goes straight into your Dedicated Company Platform at no extra cost.
For organisations operating under BS7858, BPSS, FCA or CQC requirements, the ability to point to a clear, timestamped record of CPD certified staff training is not a nice thing to have. It is a compliance requirement. The Hub makes it straightforward to maintain and evidence at any time.
Over 22 compliance toolkits ready to use from day one
Alongside the training library, every subscriber receives access to a comprehensive suite of digital compliance toolkits. More than twenty-two of them, covering every area of employment screening and vetting compliance your organisation is likely to encounter.
These include BS7858 employer and applicant guidance, BPSS evidence checklists, screening and vetting policy templates, audit preparation checklists, right to work compliance toolkits, DBS decision frameworks, identity verification logs, new starter screening checklists, subject access request response templates and data protection compliance checklists, among others.
These are not generic documents adapted from someone else's framework. They are built from two decades of doing this work operationally, updated to reflect current requirements, and designed to be usable the following morning. The kind of practical infrastructure that means the person responsible for compliance in your organisation does not have to build everything from scratch, or rely on processes inherited from a predecessor that have never been properly tested under scrutiny.
As we outlined in our post on employment history verification, having the right documentation framework is not separate from having the right knowledge. The two work together, and The Hub provides both.
The Vetting Hub Intelligence Briefing
Every subscription, across all three tiers, includes the Vetting Hub Intelligence Briefing delivered directly to your inbox. Written by Graham and me, it covers the things that actually matter to the people responsible for getting screening right. What recent legislative changes mean in practice. New and emerging fraud threats. Sector-specific compliance updates. Practical guidance written in plain language by two people who have spent their entire careers in this field and who understand that what you need is usable information rather than noise.
With illegal working raids now at the highest level ever recorded in UK history, the BRP phase-out changing how non-British and Irish workers prove their right to work, the Fair Work Agency launching on 7 April 2026 with expanded enforcement powers, and AI-generated document fraud identified as one of the top five fraud threats of 2026, the regulatory and risk landscape your organisation is navigating right now is more demanding than it has been at any previous point. The Intelligence Briefing keeps you informed about all of it, from people who understand exactly what it means for your processes.
We discussed the documentation implications of the Fair Work Agency in detail in our recent post Is Your Screening Ready?, and the civil penalty risks every employer needs to understand in The £60,000 Civil Penalty Myth That Puts Careful Employers at Risk. Both are worth reading alongside this post.
Direct expert access — the part that makes The Hub genuinely different
Organisations on the Advisory Hub plan receive six dedicated hours of private online consultancy with Graham and me, included within the subscription. These are not webinars. Not group sessions. Not a helpdesk with a ticket number. Six hours reserved exclusively for your organisation, where your team brings real questions about real situations to two people who have almost certainly dealt with the same thing before.
Organisations use those sessions in very different ways. Some use them to prepare for an upcoming ACS, SIA, NSI or SSAIB inspection, going through their screening files and processes in detail before the auditor arrives. Others use the time to review their entire screening infrastructure, get an independent view on their vetting processes, or work through a complex case where they need an expert second opinion before making a decision. Some simply use the sessions to get a straight answer to the question that has been sitting on the compliance manager's desk for three months because nobody inside the organisation has been confident enough to answer it definitively.
At our standard consultancy rate of £300 per hour, six hours represents £1,800 of expert time included within the Advisory Hub subscription. On top of the full Dedicated Company Platform, the complete course library and the full toolkit suite, it is what makes that tier genuinely different from anything else available.
The three subscription tiers
The Professional Hub at £397 per month is designed for organisations with up to 25 staff. The Organisation Hub at £597 per month covers teams of between 26 and 100 staff. The Advisory Hub at £1,297 per month is for any size organisation that wants everything the platform offers plus direct private access to Graham and me.
All three are 12 month contracts billed monthly, moving to rolling monthly thereafter. All three include the full course library, the complete toolkit suite, the Dedicated Company Platform and the Intelligence Briefing. Nothing is held back from any tier.
For context on value, the average salary for a compliance officer in the UK sits between £35,000 and £55,000 per year before employer National Insurance contributions, pension costs and recruitment fees. Even the Advisory Hub at £15,564 per year costs considerably less than a junior compliance hire, while giving your organisation something a single individual cannot provide: a continuously updated specialist knowledge base, a certified training platform for your entire team, and direct access to two practitioners whose combined operational experience in employment screening most organisations could not realistically hire.
Also available without a subscription
Two standalone services are available to any organisation regardless of whether they hold a subscription. Expert Consultancy sessions at £300 per hour for any vetting, screening or compliance challenge you need expert input on right now. And Pre-Audit Vetting File Reviews, where Graham and I personally review your vetting files in detail and provide a comprehensive written report identifying exactly what an inspector would flag, giving you the time to correct it before they arrive. Ten files for £997, twenty-five files for £1,597.
If you have an ACS, SIA, NSI or SSAIB inspection approaching, the Pre-Audit review is the most direct way to find out exactly where you stand before an inspector tells you.
Working with Vetting Hub
The Hub exists because the person responsible for employment screening compliance inside most organisations has never had access to the level of practical specialist knowledge this work actually requires. That was true when we started in 2004. It is still true now.
If you want to see exactly what your organisation would receive, book a free demonstration and we will walk you through it. No obligation, no pressure. Just a clear picture of what The Hub gives you from day one.
