027 Umbrella Regulation – Some Quick Wins

This is the second of our two-part special chatting about the unregulated umbrella sector with industry expert Crawford Temple.  We rejoin the conversation discussing the lack of enforcement in the sector and the detrimental impact this is having.  We go on to discuss some quick-wins that HMRC could easily implement which would support and empower […]

026 Could Umbrella Regulation Mirror Financial Services?

There have been many calls for the umbrella sector to be regulated by the government, so we chat to industry expert Crawford Temple to find out his thoughts on the subject.  His answer is very interesting: implement a system similar to financial services which has a track record of success and could achieve the same […]

What is Umbrella Accreditation?

What is it? Accreditation is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as ‘the action or process of officially recognising someone as having a particular status or being qualified to perform a particular activity’. At present, umbrella companies are not subject to any additional regulation other than that to which any other company and/or employer is subject, […]