FAQs

In order to qualify for the application of an SIA License, you will need to undergo security training first. Once you have completed your tuition, you will receive a certificate which you will need in order to apply for your SIA License.

Any SIA-registered course will on successful completion allow you to apply for an SIA license.

Yes, most of our students start out with this learning course, pass their exams effortlessly and then obtain their Security Industry Authority badge.

This can depend on a number of things. The SIA have a tool on their website which can help with trying indicate whether you may be eligible for an SIA license:

http://www.sia.homeoffice.gov.uk/Pages/criminal-record-indicator.aspx

Blueprint is the training centre providing the tuition and qualification that candidates need to apply for their SIA license. The badge itself is applied for directly from the Security Industry Authority and they ask a fee for processing and issuing the SIA license.

No, SIA will have your results and you can apply before you receive your certificate.

To qualify for a license to sell alcohol you will require training and a qualification which is S.Q.A. approved. This qualification is known as the Scottish Certificate for Personal Licence Holders (SCPLH) level 5. You can attend one of our one-day instructor-led courses, sitting the examination at the end of the day. On a successful pass, you will receive a SCPLH certificate that will allow you to apply to your local Licensing Board for your Personal License.

Yes, if you have more than 8 people working within your business that require a personal license then we can bring the training to your venue. Please call or email for additional information.

If your personal license was revoked because you failed to complete your refresher training or you failed to submit evidence to the Licensing Board within the statutory timescales then as of 6th August 2015 the five-year period preventing you from applying for a new person license had been removed. 

This means that you can now apply to the Licensing Board in the area where you reside for a new personal license. You will have to undergo, and pass the full SCPLH Qualification and submit a copy of this certificate with your application for a new license. If your license has been revoked for any other reason, you will still need to wait 5 years.

Blueprint Training administers the examinations on behalf of the awarding body (HABC). At the end of the exam all the test materials are sent to HABC for marking and the results will be emailed to you when we receive them. Please note * Due to Data Protection no results can be given out over the telephone. Certificates will be sent to you directly within 14 days of the examinations results being received.

You can find a complete list of accepted documents here.

If you have changed your mind about your course and you are within one week of your course date, we will refund your fee. 

Once booked, you also have the option to change the date of your course up to three days before your training. 

If you fail to attend the course you have booked, in exceptional circumstance, we will allow you to re-arrange another course date. 

Please note that we offer a 14 day ‘cooling-off period’ from when you purchase your course.