When admissions compliance is in trouble, this is the route back to safe ground
The Compliance Stabilisation Programme is for institutions where admissions compliance is in difficulty and needs sustained, structured attention to fix. Not a review. Not a roadmap. The actual stabilisation work, delivered to a defined timeline, with the documentation to evidence what was done.
You walk away with a function that is demonstrably compliant, evidenced for committee and regulator, and ready to be handed back to internal leadership.
Who it’s for
Institutions that:
- Have identified serious compliance issues internally or through audit, inspection, or a Diagnostic
- Are facing a regulator conversation, condition, or directed action and need to demonstrate response
- Have lost senior admissions leadership at the wrong moment and need stabilisation while they recruit
- Have inherited a function with known regulatory exposure and need to close it before it escalates
What’s included
- A structured workstream covering the live compliance risks: policy, procedure, casework, governance, training, and evidence
- Documented stabilisation activity with checkpoint reports for senior leadership
- Casework support on cases in difficulty during the period
- Policy and procedure development or revision where required
- Briefing papers, EqIAs, committee submissions, and governance documentation
- Staff briefing and training on the changes being made
- A handover pack for the incoming senior leader or returning function
What you walk away with
A function that holds up to scrutiny. Documented evidence of the actions taken, by whom, when, and to what effect. A team that has been part of the change rather than subjected to it. An audit trail that supports both regulatory and internal accountability conversations. Confidence about what is now in place and what comes next.
How it works
Delivered in three phases.
Phase 1: Stabilisation (typically four to eight weeks). The most urgent compliance risks are addressed, controls put in place, and the function brought into a defensible position. Checkpoint reports are produced for senior leadership.
Phase 2: Embed (typically four to twelve weeks). Policy, procedure, and governance documentation completed. Staff trained on the new ways of working. Evidence package compiled.
Phase 3: Handover (typically two weeks). Final reports, handover documentation, and briefing for the incoming or returning senior leader.
What this is
Think Bold delivers the programme as an external contracted partner, with our own methods, our own documentation standards, and our other clients. Outside IR35 by design and in practice.
How it connects to the Diagnostic
A Diagnostic produces a roadmap. Sometimes that roadmap reveals stabilisation is needed before anything else can happen. In those cases the Stabilisation Programme is the route to safe ground, and the rest of the roadmap follows.
The Stabilisation Programme can also be commissioned without a prior Diagnostic where the issues are already known.
Investment
From £18,000 for the full three-phase programme. Final fee depends on the scale of the function and the severity of the position. Quote provided after a scoping conversation.
Start with a confidential conversation
These conversations are often sensitive. The scoping call is confidential and without commitment.