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We’re all getting a lot more familiar with our homes as we learn to adjust to our new lives during the Coronavirus pandemic. Nevertheless, many of us like myself are feeling eager to return to normal, or at least a ‘new normal’ and will be going back to the office. However, you can’t ignore that it can make you feel quite anxious, whether it’s fears of going back to work in the office, commuting to and from work or anxiety around the idea of lockdown lifting is totally normal!

And that’s why it’s important to share how your feelings and concerns during these times of uncertainty with your manager/or your colleagues because chances are, they’re feeling the same. I can personally say 1SC has encouraged a brilliant safe return to the office from making sure staff travel outside of busy periods or the option to work from home and providing PPE in the office.

On entering 1SC office, you must  ensure to:

·       Wash your hands

Over the past 23 years we have worked alongside our clients which include London Boroughs to provide staff from local communities who are paid fairly for the work they perform. We recognise the importance of socio-economic wellbeing its importance to all stakeholders, therefore we strive to promote employment,  vacancies to specifically attract the local workforce which we feel will be beneficial to the entire community.

We believe we have a responsibility to make local jobs for local people thus contributing to tackling unemployment within the London Boroughs we operate. We work alongside our clients to identify problems and provide solutions on how 1SC can help improve the lives of the local communities in which we currently serve.

How our service benefits local authorities and its communities

·       Employment in the area, reducing unemployment, increasing self-worth

Over the years we have been on the case of substandard Security Officers and how they represent our Industry as one of the most under paid but extremely unprofessional, albeit British Standards and the introduction of the SIA seem to have done very little to improve this status.

Lockdown for us has been extremely busy, yet getting staff is near impossible! We can get, would be applicants with 10 years’ experience and an SIA license, but quite frankly 96.5% arrive with little or no understanding of Security and what it is we actually do, how is this?

It’s well thought that the owners of SIA licenses whilst genuine have not actually attended any tuition and the test they need to obtain a license has been manipulated to pass all candidates thus, producing persons who posses a security license but have no idea about the job or what it entails, although the claims of all applicants is that, “I’ve done the job for years” the standard is below poor, in our opinion.

We strive daily to improve the conditions and pay of our staff but we are thwarted by the on set of those needing work and unscrupulous training companies putting forward substandard staff to be employed into our industry, it really doesn’t take the brain of Einstein to figure out if an applicant is experienced and has the under-pining knowledge to protect persons and property when on duty.

Since the lockdown began, we have interviewed scores of staff and of those over the past 12 weeks we have employed 3, we actually need 23 but we cannot find applicants with the required skill set and we are no different to our competitors or are we?