The Professional Employment Model operates in a similar way to umbrella with the main difference being the worker is on a fixed worker rate for the hours worked.

Employment costs are notified back to the agency and these are generally settled separately.

Following the announcement in The Finance Bill 2026 of Joint and Several Liability these arrangements will be caught by the new legislation.

Our new accreditation, as part of the protection process for Joint and Several Lability will require use of the Fortis system of the payment validation of all workers.

Accreditation will be achieved once a provider (1) has satisfied our review of a provider’s operational processes and procedures, and in addition (2) is integrated in to our new Fortis platform.

We will be migrating existing providers over to Fortis towards the end of 2025 and early 2026.

With effect from the start of the 2026-27 tax year, previous accreditations of providers who are not integrated into Fortis will cease to be valid.