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This will include, redefining roles to have clearer duties, accountabilities and better training,Ìýand using new equipment to enable us to deliver a more efficient, tech-enabled security service.

Our priority is to deliver the best security service and experience possible, and to continue to ensure the safety of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê’s large community of students, staff and visitors.

There will also be clearer routes and opportunities for career progression and more training to upskill staff and support their development. While there will be fewer roles in the new structure, there will be redeployment opportunities and staff will be offered a financially enhanced resignation scheme.ÌýÌý ÌýÌý

Bidvest Noonan is now consulting with its Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê-based security staff on the proposed changes.ÌýÌý

Ian Dancy, Executive Director of Operations at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê, said “Our security colleagues are highly valued and respected members of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê community, and we rely on their expertise to ensure our campus is safe and secure.

“To further enhance security at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê, we are working alongside our providers, Bidvest Noonan, to ensure teams are more visible and agile across our large Bloomsbury campus, with better training for staff and access to new innovative technologies. This will increase the range of buildings supported by our security teams, and mean staff are patrolling a wider area, so can react more quickly to incidents no matter where they take place. Ìý

“This supports our wider aims to improve the campus experience, and to open up Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê to engage even more closely with our local London community. Ìý

“As part of the consultation process, we are encouraging staff and their trade union representatives to provide feedback, and help shape how these changes can be best delivered. We recognise any period of change can be unsettling, and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê’s confidential wellbeing support services are available to all security staff."

These proposed changes will not affect Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê East campus, Stanmore campus, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Royal Free campus and Chaple Place which use alternative providers for our security provision.ÌýÌý

Investment in security at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÌý

In recent years, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê has invested over £10 million per year to harmonise pay and benefits for our outsourced colleagues, and these include some of the best rates for these roles in the sector. We contribute the same percentage to their pensions as in-house staff. We are an accredited London Living Wage employer and our external providers are required to pay contracted staff at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê at least the London Living Wage.ÌýÌý