Bespoke Frameworks

Skills and Compliance

At ValidateSkills

We believe a skills framework should work for your organisation — not the other way around.

Giving you the power to go beyond known skills frameworks like SFIA and create a fully bespoke skills architecture tailored to your business. By add single skills to an existing skills framework or build a completely new framework to suit your specific needs.

More Than the Standard Framework

Organisations operating in high‑assurance, regulated, or digitally‑intensive environments increasingly require a workforce whose skills are clearly defined, consistently assessed, and strategically aligned.

Traditional skills frameworks such as SFIA (Skills Framework for the Information Age) and CIISec (Chartered Institute of Information Security Framework) provide globally recognised structures — but on their own often fail to reflect the unique operational, regulatory, and sector‑specific needs of modern organisations.

A hybrid skills framework

A hybrid skills framework that integrates selected elements of SFIA and/or CIISec with bespoke organisational skill descriptors provides a powerful solution. It allows organisations to maintain alignment with recognised industry standards while ensuring the precision, flexibility, and contextual relevance required for workforce planning, audit readiness, and capability uplift.

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Compliance Frameworks

Compliance Frameworks, it doesn't have to be skills you need clarification on, compliance is becoming an increasing part of our business governance.

Chartered Professional Development

We have the capability to integrate into a Membership vetting proceedure. Use a skills framework to compliy with membership applications. Make sure your members do have the right professional skills needed to join your insitute.

But what if

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Your industry requires specialist capabilities not covered?
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You need deeper detail in certain skill areas?
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You want to reflect your internal language and operating model?
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You operate outside of IT altogether?
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You want functions assessed rather than skills
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A compliance model to provide evidence of capability

We can:

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Add your own skill codes
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Create bespoke skill descriptors
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Disable unwanted SFIA codes
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Retain only the SFIA skills that suit you
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Build a hybrid framework combining SFIA and your own capabilities
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A compliance model to provide evidence of capability

All while preserving the integrity of the SFIA structure.

Why bespoke

The Case for a New Skills Framework

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Many organisations face common challenges in workforce capability management:

Legacy or generic frameworks do not map cleanly to sector‑specific needs, compliance obligations, or in‑house operating models.
Regulators increasingly expect demonstrable, role‑based competency evidence (e.g., cyber, risk, resilience, operator competence).
Workforce transformation programmes require clarity of skills baselines, future‑state capability definitions, and development pathways.

A modern skills framework must therefore be:

Strategic — aligned to organisational goals, risk appetite, and regulatory context.
Operational — precise enough to support roles, interviews, assessments, and performance management.
Flexible — enabling the addition of new, emerging, or specialist skills without dependency on external updates.
Recognised — incorporating industry-standard models to ensure credibility and mobility.