Thinking on compliance, infrastructure, and AI.
Every September brings updates. This year’s KCSIE changes tighten requirements around online checks, overseas verifications, and how agencies evidence their processes to schools. We break down what matters.
The SCR is the most audited document in education recruitment. Yet most agencies maintain it manually, with gaps they don’t discover until an auditor does. There’s a better way to think about it.
AI agents query the DBS Update Service, run TRA prohibition checks, and validate Right to Work documents — autonomously. But the compliance decision? That’s made by deterministic rules, not AI. Here’s why that distinction matters.
Most compliance systems send a reminder when a DBS certificate is about to expire. Then what? Someone emails the candidate, chases the re-upload, checks the document, updates the record. That’s not automation — it’s a to-do list.
Between email chains, re-uploads, spreadsheet updates, and audit prep, the average compliance officer spends 60% of their time on process — not judgement. We mapped the true cost.
AI can extract data from documents and run checks autonomously. But should AI decide whether a candidate is compliant? In regulated sectors where safeguarding is the standard, the answer is no — and the architecture should reflect that.
