Direct question, direct numbers. This page gives specific cost figures for Martyn’s Law readiness, across the three main routes.

The Home Office impact assessment set a baseline for Standard Tier readiness that assumes internal management, no external subscription, and no consultant spend. That baseline aligns closely with the routes available today.

The baseline is a time-cost estimate covering procedure preparation, staff training, exercises, and evidence upkeep. It’s a reasonable benchmark to compare other routes against.

Self-managed: no subscription, significant senior staff time

Work you do in-house, based on the Act itself and the statutory guidance:

• Write procedures from scratch.
• Develop training content.
• Design and run an exercise.
• Maintain evidence manually.

Pros: No subscription. Full control. Cons: Significant time cost. Gaps develop without structure. Best for: Single-site premises with strong internal capacity.

The time cost is meaningful. For most premises this route involves tens of hours of senior staff time up front, plus ongoing maintenance. That time has a real cost attached, and it often meets or exceeds a purpose-built platform subscription.

Security consultant: priced per consultant, varies widely

• Consultant produces procedures.
• Staff training delivered or facilitated.
• Consultant leads first exercise.
• Evidence handled or handed back.

Pros: External expertise. Credibility signal. Cons: Cost scales poorly across sites. Template-heavy work is common. Best for: Enhanced Tier premises with complex measures requirements.

Consultant pricing varies by scope and provider. We don’t publish estimates of third-party consultant fees — request quotes directly.

Purpose-built platform: £399 per year per site (Prova Risk list price)

• Procedures generated from scoping questionnaire.
• Training modules built in.
• Exercise templates and scenarios included.
• Evidence automatically maintained.
• Statutory guidance updates flow through.

Pros: Low absolute cost. Scales well. Time-efficient. Cons: Requires platform adoption. Best for: Most Standard Tier premises. All multi-site organisations.

Time to produce procedures

Writing four public protection procedures specific to a premises takes 8 to 16 hours for someone who knows the Act well. A consultant can do it faster but charges for the time. A platform generates it from your scoping inputs in minutes.

Training rollout

Developing training content, delivering it, and tracking records consumes meaningful staff time. Platform-based training with built-in record keeping removes most of this.

Evidence maintenance

The ongoing maintenance of evidence (who’s trained, when they were trained, what exercises were run, what changed and why) is where self-managed approaches fall down over time. Platforms automate the update loop; consultants charge for it; self-managed organisations often discover gaps at the point of inspection.

Multi-site coordination

Any organisation with more than three or four sites faces a coordination challenge self-managed and consultant approaches don’t solve at reasonable cost. A central dashboard is typically the lever that makes multi-site readiness workable, and that’s a platform capability.

None of the figures above cover the cost of non-compliance once enforcement begins in April 2027:

• Penalty notices for breaches.
• Criminal penalties for serious or persistent non-compliance.
• Reputational exposure if an incident occurs on a premises that should have prepared and didn’t.

These aren’t priced in because they’re avoidable by preparing. The relevant comparison is between routes to preparation, not between preparation and non-preparation.

The fastest way to know is our free Am I in Scope? tool. A handful of questions, a clear answer, no account needed.

If you already know you’re in scope, Get Started with Prova Risk to prepare your public protection procedures, train your staff, and keep the evidence you’ll need if inspected. £399 per year per site.

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