The 2007-2008 Building The Future Award – bestowed jointly by security guarding web site Infologue.com and Security Management Today (SMT) – is awarded this year to an entire organisation, Skills for Security.
The Building The Future Award is sponsored by Interconnective and given to the person or organisation who – in the view of the majority of previous winners – has created the most significant footprints towards a vibrant, professional and mutually profitable guarding industry during each year.
From its inception in January 2006, Skills for Security has been at the forefront of developing a modern security industry. Innovation is one of its cornerstones, the organisation having created a significant footprint towards a vibrant, professional and mutually profitable security guarding sector.
Register of Security Professionals
All members of the Skills for Security Team, past and present, have contributed to the success of this organisation in such a short period of time.
The organisation’s achievements have been pretty substantial. The Sorensen Centre, for example, has been established as a modern facility dedicated to research and studies in security, policing, crime, terrorism and other related subjects. The Professional Register of Trainers and The Register of Security Professionals are designed to provide a credible means by which individuals can demonstrate their professionalism within the security business sector, and a commitment to their personal Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as educators.
The aim of the recently-launched Security Practitioner Programme is to provide a learning programme and full Level 2 vocational qualifications of 325 guided learning hours for security officers who are then rightly recognised as valued and competent employees.
Skills for Security’s course accreditation scheme also supports quality training and offers a range of flexible accreditation approaches designed to provide people in the security business sector with access to unparalleled expertise and specialist knowledge.
Setting the skills agenda
Skills for Security has been established as the skills and standards setting body for the security business sector. The organisation leads the way in setting a new skills agenda for the sector, aimed at increasing security-related vocational education and training while at the same time raising the skills and professionalism of the sector’s workforce.
Skills is an employer-led organisation with a Board of Directors drawn from the industry and supported by a Stakeholder Management Committee and employer consultation groups which reflect the diverse activities of the security business sector. The organisation also has strategic partnerships within the Skills for Business Network to ensure its voice is heard and that it can fully participate in any Government-supported skills initiatives.
The previous winners
Previous winners of the Infologue.com/Security Management Today Building The Future Award are:
2006: Stuart Lowden (Wilson James)
2005: David Beaton (G4S Security Services UK)
2004: Bill Muskin (VSG)
2003: David Dickinson (BSIA)