Skillcast Course Library Updates

Skillcast is the leading provider of compliance e-learning in the UK. We offer over 400 courses on key staff compliance topics, arranged in course libraries Compliance Essentials, Compliance Bites, FCA Compliance, Insurance Compliance and and Risk Management.

We continuously update courses and add new ones to ensure you have the necessary compliance e-learning to train your staff.

You get instant access to any course we add to libraries in your subscription at no additional cost. Access the latest versions of the courses on your compliance portal by going to "Content Management > Skillcast Modules". Please remember that the updated version won't include any edits you previously made. If you need help, please get in touch with your Customer Success Manager.

Coming soon!

All courses in our FCA Compliance library are undergoing a design upgrade with a new skin design, more engaging and interactive page layouts and improvements to accessibility. We will also add two new courses to this library: Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and Investment Labels. We are also updating our Consumer Duty courses to incorporate new content on closed products and good practices.

Q1 2024 - Course Updates

Here's a list of all the course titles updated or added during January - March 2024:

March 2024

Compliance Bites are one year old this month and have grown to over 130 modules, covering all the key compliance topics, including data protection, cybersecurity, fighting financial crime, behaving ethically, health and safety and equality and some pretty niche bites like ECCTA and IR35.

Despite their short durations, these modules bring compliance issues, rules, and regulations to life and show how they work in the real world. The modules also provide scenarios allowing users to practice what they've learnt.

If you'd like to try compliance microlearning, sign up for our Question of the Day campaign featuring Compliance Bites:

We've launched a new course in the Insurance Compliance library called Operational Resilience. This course explains what the FCA and PRA mean by operational resilience and how to comply with their requirements. It trains your staff to identify critical business services, set impact tolerances, and map and test to respond to operational disruptions.

February 2024

We've added seven new microlearning modules to our Insurance Compliance library: Structure of the UK insurance market, Functions within insurance firms, Lloyd's of London, Reinsurance, The Insurance Distribution Directive, Agency in Insurance and Agency Authority in Insurance.

We've also released a new Health and Safety course on using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

January 2024

All the courses in our OTS Insurance Compliance Library have been given a comprehensive design upgrade. This features a new skin design, more engaging and interactive page layouts, and accessibility improvements.

We've launched a new course in the Insurance Compliance library called Principles of Insurance. This course explains the fundamental principles, such as good faith and indemnity, and the UK legislation that has impacted these principles in recent years.

Q4 2023 - Course Updates

Here's a list of all the course titles updated or added during October - December 2023:

December 2023

The Compliance Bites library reached the 100-animation milestone before the year's end.

We've also concluded the annual review cycle for the Express library, which included a major design upgrade.

November 2023

We've concluded the annual review cycle for the Essentials Refresher library, which included a major design upgrade.

This month, we've updated our Essentials courses, including Express and Refresher, for the impact of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA) 2023. The significantly affected courses include Anti-Bribery Training, AML & CTF, Bribery Prevention, Embargoes and Sanctions, Financial Crime Prevention, Financial Sanctions, Fraud Prevention and Preventing the Facilitation of Tax Evasion.

We've added a new Appointed Representatives Regulatory Responsibilities course in the FCA Compliance library

October 2023

This month, we completed the annual review cycle for the Essentials library. We also added a new Health and Safety course: Fire Warden Training.

We've added six new microlearning modules to our Insurance Compliance library: Principles of Utmost Good Faith, Insurable Interest, Proximate Cause, Indemnity, Subrogation and Contribution and a seventh one explaining a brief history of insurance regulation in the UK.

We've also added a full-length course The UK Insurance Market. This course explains the evolution and structure of the insurance and reinsurance market and the functions of the various market participants, including the Lloyd's of London.

Q3 2023 - Course Updates

Here's a list of all the course titles updated or added during July - September 2023:

September 2023

We've added a new course on Accident Reporting & Investigation to the Health and Safety suite in our Essentials library.

August 2023

We've added a new Speak-up course to our Essentials library. If you're unfamiliar with it, Speak-up is a broader concept than whistleblowing. It refers to a culture where people feel safe to raise any allegation or concern, whether about something illegal (which is covered by whistleblowing) or ethical. Speak-up is an early-warning system that can prevent misconduct from snowballing into a reputational crisis.

We've launched our fully revamped Health and Safety library, including more comprehensive coverage, news stories, exercise scenarios covering more health and safety aspects, and design updates and assurance by ROSPA - The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

July 2023

Although our Compliance Bites library is only a few months old, we've made a major update with the addition of assessments. So, your users can now put the concepts they learn into practice in realistic scenarios. And you can track the usage of these microlearning modules and even make them a part of your mandatory compliance training.

We added a new course on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) to our Essentials and Global Compliance libraries. This takes a broader approach to diversity in the workplace than our Equality course, which is limited to the Equality Act.

Q2 2023 - Course Updates

Here's a list of all the course titles that have been updated or added during April - June 2023:

June 2023

We are pleased to announce that several of our Global Risk courses have been certified by the International Institute of Risk & Safety Management (IIRSM).

We've added three new courses to the Essentials library:

And two new ones in the Global Compliance library:

May 2023

We launched the Compliance Bites library with 50 animations at the Learning Technologies Event in the UK.

We've added a new course in the Essentials library: Mandatory Disclosure Rules (UK MDR).

Three new courses were added to the Global Compliance library:

We also added another in the Global Risk library: Developing Secure Applications

We've added an Assessment test to the "Introduction to the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR)" course in the SMCR Compliance library.

April 2023

This month, we've added four new Fast Track courses:

Unconscious Bias
Whistleblowing
PCI Data Security Standard
Working Safely

We've added a Compliance Note as a linked resource to 10 of our top OTS Essentials courses. Each compliance note is a short (typically 3 pages) PDF document summarising key issues such as company obligations, an individual's duties, why the topic matters, potential penalties, etc.

You'll find these notes in the courses by selecting the link icon in the top-right corner, and they will open in a new tab by default.

We've added a course on Unconscious Bias to our Global Compliance.

We've launched a fully updated set of SMCR courses to train Senior Managers, Certified Persons and other Conduct Rule Employees at sole and dual-regulated firms. These new courses have been fully updated for the FCA's new Consumer Duty regulation and contain a section on the new Individual Conduct Rule 6.

Q1 2023 - Course Updates

Here's a list of all the course titles updated or added during January - March 2023:

March 2023

We've re-launched our Risk library as Global Risk – with all Risk courses now available in English and eight other languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish and Spanish. We've used an AI-powered translation service - DeepL, to translate these courses.

We've completed a major design upgrade of the Essentials library and added a new course on Menopause Awareness to our Health and Safety suite in this library.

We've also added a short course to the FCA Compliance and Insurance Compliance libraries called Introduction to the Consumer Duty to complement the existing longer course Overview of the Consumer Duty. We've also added a UK Money Markets Code course to the FCA Compliance library.

We've added two courses to the Global Compliance library:

February 2023

We launched the Global Compliance library with six modules for a global audience: AML, Bribery Prevention, Competition Law, Data Protection, Information Security and Fraud.

All courses are available in English and 8 AI translated languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish and Spanish.

Both the FCA and Insurance versions of our OTS "CASS - Client Money and Client Assets" course have now been replaced by the following suite of new CASS courses:

We've added another new course to the FCA Compliance library called COBS - Client Communications High-Risk Investments to complement the existing COBS - Client Communications course.

January 2023

We are excited about a new concept in annual compliance training called the FastTrack, introduced to our clients this month. This allows experienced employees to prove their understanding of a topic through a quick pre-course assessment. They only need to complete a short refresher rather than the full course if they pass.

If they don't pass, they need to complete the full course and the post-course assessment. This enables you to evidence staff compliance as robustly as our standard courses while rewarding your employees for their existing knowledge and reducing training fatigue.

We offer the FastTrack option for Anti-Bribery Training, Bribery Prevention, Competition Law, Fraud Prevention, AML/CTF, Data Protection, Modern Slavery, Information Security and Market Abuse Regulation.