Start here
- What would an inspector find in your book? The free compliance check: bring your spreadsheets and the dashboard reads back the gaps an inspection would ask about first. Twenty minutes, no card.
- The compliance timeline, 2026 to 2027 Every dated change in one place: what is already live, what lands on 1 October, what is announced but not yet dated, and what is still in consultation.
The rules, one at a time
- Right-to-work checks from 1 October 2026 SI 2026/700: the scheme extended beyond employees to the working arrangements contract staffing uses, the RtW DVSP route, and why the date of a check is now load-bearing.
- Umbrella compliance and joint and several liability Since 6 April 2026 the agency answers for the umbrella's PAYE, and the rules carry no due diligence defence. What that leaves you able to do.
- IR35 compliance software for recruitment agencies Where the fee-payer risk sits, the small-company rule, what an SDS must travel with, and what software has to record.
- Key Information Documents: what agencies must issue Regulation 13A, the before-terms timing that catches people out, and why the document should fall out of the record.
- The AWR 12-week rule, and what breaks the clock What counts as a qualifying week, the reg 7(8) six-week break, and why hand-counting resets the clock a week early.
- Self-billing for recruitment agencies VAT Notice 700/62: the agreement that must exist first, why it expires, and the VAT rule that catches agencies out.
- The employment intermediaries quarterly report Who owes a return, what HMRC asks for, and why building it from invoices under-reports every quarter.
- The Fair Work Agency and what it means for agencies One enforcement body instead of three, and why that raises the cost of a records gap.
Putting it in
- The BookKept API Keep the CRM you already run and add the compliance layer alongside it: scoped keys, per-area grants, the endpoint list, and what no key can ever do.
- Set up by the people who built it Have COM Computing write the integration to your stack, or rebuild the agency's whole website on the same system, on your own address.
- How BookKept compares Beside a timesheet system, a compliance platform, Templio and a spreadsheet, row by row, read from their published pages, with what BookKept does not do stated as plainly as what it does.