What the rule actually requires, who it now covers, and what you have to be able to show afterwards. With the statute or the government guidance the information comes from.
The duty now reaches worker's contracts, individual subcontractors and online matching services. The three lawful ways to check, what a statutory excuse requires, the £45,000 and £60,000 per-worker penalties, and the follow-up checks that quietly lapse.
£611 or £1,682 to apply, £525 per certificate, and an immigration skills charge that runs for the length of the visa. The four named roles the Home Office checks, and why there is no renewal date to rely on.
Most employer duties in the UK are not discharged by filling in a form. They are discharged by doing something at the right moment and being able to prove it later — a check before the first shift, a record kept for two years after someone leaves, a repeat check before a permission expires.
So what these pages give you is the timing, the exposure and the evidence, with the government source next to it. Where an official form does exist, we link it rather than reprint it.
Knowing what is required takes an afternoon. Holding it across several sites, agency supply and people who are never in an office is the part that fails. Documents sit in one place, expiry dates in someone's head, and training records in a folder nobody opens until an audit.
