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Compliance Essentials: E-learning courses for UK staff with CPD-accredited options

Our Compliance Essentials library provides the training to help you manage your company’s key compliance issues. This training provides your staff with the relevant knowledge to meet regulatory requirements with over 100 e-learning courses.

Boost your company’s compliance

Best for…

Companies looking to upskill across a range of core compliance issues.

Hosted on…

The Skillcast Learning Management System or your existing platform.

Learn with…

Over 100 e-learning modules, varying in length and topic.

Is our Compliance Essentials library right for you?

Compliance Essentials is our most popular course library — and it’s easy to see why. Our Essentials library covers key compliance challenges UK businesses face, spanning financial crime, cybersecurity, equality and diversity, and ESG. You can host the library on our fully managed LMS portal or your existing LMS. If something isn’t quite right, you can customise this library by exploring our bespoke training options.

Learn more about bespoke training

About our learning styles

In-depth

These are our more detailed e-learning courses that include practice scenarios and typically last between 25 and 45 minutes.

Refresher

These targeted courses help reinforce your employees' knowledge and notify them of any updates they might not be aware of. These typically last between 10 and 15 minutes.

Express

Our focused training courses deliver employee learning in smaller chunks, typically lasting between 5 and 10 minutes.

Microlearning

These bite-sized animated training videos can be delivered as: standalone, embedded in detailed e-learning courses, or compiled into a learning path.

What you'll find in our Essentials library

See what's included in our Compliance Essentials library below. Looking for something specific? Use the search bar to find what you need. If you have any questions, reach out to us and tell us more about your needs — we're happy to help.

PCI Data Security Standard

PCI Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is the information security standard for organisations that process credit card payments.

Managing Safely

Managers need a deeper understanding of issues, systems and procedures to empower them to deal with the health and safety of their teams.

Business Ethics and Integrity

Our Business Ethics and Integrity Course is designed to raise employee awareness and understanding, offering practical examples mirroring real-world ethical dilemmas.

Code of Conduct

Every company expects its employees to meet the highest professional standards, to act ethically and with integrity.

Data Protection

Data protection relates to how all organisations collect, use, and store personal and sensitive data.

Embargoes and Sanctions

Embargoes and sanctions prohibit all transactions with an entity, trading of certain commodities, or supplying critical goods.

Environmental Social and Governance (ESG)

ESG has become a 'catch-all' in recent years, describing the extent to which firms consider ethics and stewardship to be a part of how they run their businesses.

Financial Sanctions

Financial and economic sanctions are binding prohibitions applied by governments to prevent business transactions with certain designated persons.

Healthy Working

There are risks to your physical and mental health and wellbeing wherever you work.

Intellectual Property Rights

A company's intellectual property is one of it's most valuable assets.

Market Abuse Regulation

The laws and regulations prohibiting market abuse apply to all employees, not only those engaged in front-office, client dealing or trading roles.

Safeguarding the Vulnerable

Certain individuals may be unable to care for or protect themselves due to a mental illness or disability, age or other factors.

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Tap into purpose-designed software to match your compliance efforts

The Skillcast Portal offers a complete platform to handle your e-learning and policy management, staff disclosures, compliance registers, and more. Available in three tiers — Standard, Enhanced, and Premium — Skillcast portal plans elevate the way you deliver compliance training, with all plans including our five-star managed service and security as standard.

Learn why EDF Energy chose Skillcast to train 15,000 employees on anti-bribery laws

Your questions, answered

Are Skillcast courses SCORM-compliant?

Yes. This means they can be delivered via the Skillcast Portal or any other SCORM-compliant Learning Management System.

What other tools are needed beyond training?

A comprehensive compliance solution often needs more than just training. Alongside e-learning, tools like declarationssurveys, and registers that track compliance tasks are usually essential. Skillcast provides full support to help you set up these additional tools.

Is our training content still compliant with the latest legislation?

  • You can check the latest course content updates in our library updates page: https://www.skillcast.com/compliance-course-library-updates
  • For major legislative changes, we:
    • Will send you email alerts to ensure you are notified
    • Offer you a free trial of newly created or updated content
    • Host webinars with compliance experts to explain the changes and how our training supports your ongoing compliance

Can you translate our content into other languages?

Yes, we offer translations in a wide range of languages. Let us know your needs, and we’ll confirm availability or work with you to plan translations for your selected modules.

What file types are supported by the Skillcast system?

Features

Supported file types and details

File Exchange

File types: PDF, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, SCORM and xAPI files, and compressed zip files. Max file size: Default is 1GB, can be increased to a max of 2GB

SCORM files

Versions: SCORM 1.2, SCORM 1.2 for Moodle, SCORM 2004 2nd, 3rd and 4th Edition. Max file size: 1024MB

xAPI file

Max file size: 2GB

Videos

File types: MP4 or MOV. Videos must be optimised, with a max file size of 100MB. If the file is bigger, our Design Team can help

Images

File types: jpg, png and gif. The file size should ideally be 100KB, but it can be up to 250KB

CPD evidence

File types: Word, PDF, Excel and CSV. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Policy documents

PDF or Word File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Offline activities evidence

File types: PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PNG, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PPTX and MSG. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB

Client logo files

File types provided by client: EPS, PDF, AI and SVG

Registers

PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PPT, PPTX, POT, PPA, PPS, JPG, JPEG, PJEPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, MP4, MOV, WMV, CPTX, CP, TXT, ZIP and MSG files

Declarations

JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, XLS and XLSX files