Compliance desk·Tuesday 25 August 2026

Compliance desk

1,840 workers · 11 document types · two desks, two entirely different rulebooks

Workers registered
1,840
1,120 healthcare · 720 construction
Placeable today
1,412
77% of the register
Documents expiring in 30 days
268
Across 211 workers
Shifts booked past an expiry
41
£8,120 of bookings
Credited, 12 months
£81k
412 shifts · worker already paid
Forty-one shifts are in the diary for dates when the worker will not be placeable. Every one was booked in good faith by a consultant looking at a worker who is compliant today. Nothing in the booking screen knows what expires between now and the shift.

Where the register actually stands

1,840 workers by whether they can legally be placed right now

Compliant 1,412
Expiring 30 days 211
Expired 112
Onboarding unfinished 48
160 workers are on the register and cannot work. Consultants still ring them, because the list they call from is a spreadsheet of names and phone numbers rather than a list of people who can actually be booked.
Average documents per healthcare worker11
Average documents per construction worker7
Documents tracked in total17,340
Compliance staff6

What is expiring

268 documents in the next 30 days, by type

Mandatory training
84
Enhanced DBS
47
Skills cards
41
Professional registration
38
Right to work
29
Occupational health
29
DocumentExpiring 30dWorkersRenewal lead time
Mandatory training84841–3 days
Enhanced DBS47472–8 weeks
Skills cards41411–3 weeks
Professional registration3838Worker-led
Right to work2929Varies
Occupational health29291–2 weeks
A DBS takes up to eight weeks. Chasing it thirty days out is already too late — which is why the reminder has to run off the renewal lead time, not a fixed window.

Shifts credited

Worked, invoiced, then written off after a client audit · 412 in 12 months

15 30 45 28 Sep Nov Jan Mar May Jul
MonthCreditedMonthCredited
Sep 202528Mar 202631
Oct 202541Apr 202626
Nov 202535May 202644
Dec 202522Jun 202638
Jan 202639Jul 202633
Feb 202647Aug 202628
The February spike is one audit at one trust. Wrenmark was suspended from that framework for six weeks and lost 340 shifts of volume it has never fully won back.

Audit readiness

If a client asked for 20 files this afternoon

Files complete and in date77%
Two references covering 3 years84%
Employment gaps explained61%
Right to work checked correctly96%
Training certificates legible & dated88%
Employment gaps are the one that fails audits. They are also the most boring thing in the file, so they are the thing that gets left. An audit does not sample the good files — it samples at random.

Shifts booked that cannot legally be worked

Booked in good faith. Every one is a credit waiting to happen.

WorkerRoleClientShift dateExpiresGapValueStatus
Grace MutambaraRGN, adultRavensworth NHS Trust 8 Sep3 Sep5 d£198 Registration lapses
Grace MutambaraRGN, adultRavensworth NHS Trust 9 Sep3 Sep6 d£198 Registration lapses
Priti RavalHealthcare assistantLarkhill Care Group 2 Sep31 Aug2 d£152 Mandatory training
Tomasz WieczorekTelehandler operatorBellhouse Construction 1 Sep29 Aug3 d£224 Plant card
Sinead HalloranRGN, theatreSt Editha's Hospital 14 Sep11 Sep3 d£246 Occ health
Danny CargillGroundworkerDraycott Homes 16 Sep12 Sep4 d£176 Skills card
Nadine FerreiraPhysiotherapistRavensworth NHS Trust 18 Sep15 Sep3 d£268 Registration
Kwame BoatengHCA, nightsLarkhill Care Group 21 Sep19 Sep2 d£164 DBS
Marcus DeeleyLabourerMarchwood Civils 23 Sep20 Sep3 d£148 Right to work
Rows open the worker's file. The system will not let a shift be booked past a worker's binding expiry date without a named person overriding it and saying why.