SPS Group capability · SPS Academy
Train runs through everything SPS Group delivers, in two layers. First, mandatory training for every member of staff: safeguarding, site inductions, health and safety, refresher talks and the accreditation and compliance training each role needs. Then added-value training from a broad range of courses, from online learning and skills testing to engineer, supervisory and management training. SPS Academy (formerly SPS Training), a Highfield approved centre, leads it and also trains clients' own teams.
In short
Training is part of every SPS Group contract and works in two layers. Mandatory training for every member of staff covers safeguarding, site inductions, health and safety, annual refresher talks and accreditation and compliance training. Added-value training then builds skills across a broad range of courses, including workplace skills, supervisory and management training. SPS Group's Train capability is led by SPS Academy, formerly SPS Training, a Highfield approved centre based in Hull. It also provides SIA security licence and refresher training, CCTV operations, accredited first aid at work and health and safety qualifications, online courses, fire and security engineer training, cleaning skills training, skills testing, and management and supervisory training, at clients' premises across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire or at its training venue in Hull, with specialist courses through approved training partners. Courses are open to SPS Group clients and other organisations; SPS Academy's own website launches in early 2027.
What's included
Each service is delivered by SPS Academy, with its own trained team and accreditations.
How it joins up
Buy train on its own, or combine it with other SPS Group capabilities on one site. Each service keeps its own specialist manager, with one senior point of contact across them all.
SPS Security officers are trained and refreshed through SPS Academy, so every site gets the same standard.
Protect Train + CleanCleaning operatives and supervisors learn the same methods, wherever they work in the group.
Clean Train + DetectEngineers keep their accreditation and compliance training current, so systems are installed and maintained to standard.
DetectReal examples of clients using several SPS Group capabilities on the same site. Client names are withheld for security and confidentiality. Train is part of every one: mandatory training for all our staff (safeguarding, site inductions, health and safety), plus added-value training from a broad range of courses.
Education
Education
A secondary school where ICS Cleaning provides the cleaning, SPS Technical looks after the CCTV, fire alarm and intruder alarm systems, and SPS Security responds when an alarm goes off out of hours.
Services: Cleaning · CCTV · Fire alarm system · Intruder alarm · Alarm response
Education
A multi-academy trust using ICS Cleaning for contract cleaning across its schools, SPS Technical for CCTV and planned maintenance of fire and intruder alarms, and SPS Security for keyholding and alarm response, so heads and business managers aren't called out at night.
Services: Contract cleaning · CCTV · Fire and intruder alarm maintenance · Keyholding · Alarm response
Higher education
Higher education
A multi-building university campus where cleaning, security and fire and security systems are all delivered by SPS Group's own specialist businesses: ICS Cleaning, SPS Security and SPS Technical.
Services: Campus cleaning · Security officers and patrols · Fire and security systems
Offices
Offices
An accountancy firm's offices, cleaned by ICS Cleaning, with CCTV and an intruder alarm from SPS Technical, monitored by the group's 24-hour control room and backed by SPS Security alarm response.
Services: Office cleaning · CCTV · Intruder alarm · Alarm monitoring · Alarm response
Property
Property
A property managing agent using SPS Group across its buildings for cleaning, security, CCTV, open-up and lock-up, keyholding and alarm response, from one group rather than several separate suppliers.
Services: Cleaning · Security · CCTV · Open-up and lock-up · Keyholding · Alarm response
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
A major manufacturer where SPS Group provides security and cleaning, and SPS Technical looks after the CCTV, access control and fire alarm systems, so people, buildings and systems are covered by one group.
Services: Security · Cleaning · CCTV · Access control · Fire alarm systems
Energy
Energy
An energy infrastructure operator using SPS Group for on-site security, mobile patrols and alarm monitoring from the group's own 24-hour control room, with cleaning provided by ICS Cleaning.
Services: Security · Mobile patrols · Alarm monitoring · Cleaning
Stadiums and events
Stadiums and events
A professional sports club's stadium, where SPS Security provides mobile patrols, keyholding and alarm response between fixtures, SPS Technical looks after the CCTV, and ICS Cleaning carries out specialist cleaning.
Services: Specialist cleaning · Mobile patrols · Keyholding · Alarm response · CCTV
Accreditations and assurance
Where we work
East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, including Hull, Leeds, York, Sheffield, Doncaster, Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Lincoln, from offices in Hull, Grimsby and Lincoln.
In two layers, on every contract. Mandatory training for every member of staff covers safeguarding, site inductions, health and safety, annual refresher talks and accreditation and compliance training. Added-value training then builds skills across a broad range of courses, including online learning, skills testing, engineer, supervisory and management training, led by SPS Academy.
Yes. SPS Academy, the group's training centre in Hull and a Highfield approved centre, delivers SIA security licence training.
Yes. Courses are open to SPS Group clients and other organisations. Call the Hull office on 01482 226570 to book.
Security and SIA training (licence, top-up, refreshers, CCTV operations, counter terrorism awareness, conflict management); first aid and health and safety qualifications (Level 3 First Aid at Work, Level 2 and 3 Awards in Health and Safety, IOSH, manual handling); online courses; engineer training on fire, intruder, access control and CCTV systems; cleaning skills training and skills testing; and management and supervisory training.
Yes. On-demand online courses cover topics including fire safety, manual handling, working at height, asbestos awareness, risk assessment, GDPR, counter terrorism awareness, mental health and equality and diversity, alongside classroom and blended courses.
Yes. SPS Academy trains groups at clients' premises across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, or at its training venue in Hull, and can schedule around shifts, including evenings and weekends.
Yes. SPS Training has been renamed SPS Academy. Its own website launches in early 2027.
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