Readiness & records for standard tier
Martyn’s Law
turns on
one number.
Two hundred people in your building at once and Martyn’s Law applies to your premises. That count includes staff, volunteers and contractors, not just visitors. Muster tells you where you stand, then keeps your procedures, briefings and drills in order for the day someone asks to see them.
Founding members pay £7.50 a month including VAT—and keep the 50% saving while they stay.
- 154,600
- standard-tier premises in England, Wales & Scotland
- 4
- procedures you need in place
- Spring 2027
- when it is expected to bite
At your busiest, all present
people
Standard tier. Four public protection procedures in place, and a notification to the SIA. No physical measures, no vulnerability assessment. This is the tier Muster is built for.
If you look after more than one site
Send us your list of sites and get one scope report covering every one of them.
Dioceses, multi-academy trusts, leisure trusts, local authorities and village hall associations run the whole estate from one place, without asking a single parish or school to work out the law on its own.
- Bulk scope check
- Send a spreadsheet of your sites. One report tells you which are in scope, which are standard tier, and which need a closer look.
- Per-site delegation
- Each parish, school or centre edits only its own records. You see all of them. Nobody shares a login.
- One board, one invoice
- Procedures, briefings, drills and review dates for every site on a single status board, priced on how many sites you hold.
Before you spend anything
You do not need to buy anything to comply with Martyn’s Law. The Home Office and the SIA say so, and we agree.
So we wrote the free guide that gets a village hall treasurer all the way through it with templates, official training links and nothing to pay. If it does the job, use it and keep your money.
Who it applies to
Mostly places nobody would call a venue.
Standard tier is 154,600 premises on the Home Office’s central estimate, against 24,300 in enhanced. Overwhelmingly they are parish churches, primary schools, community halls and leisure centres, run by people who already have another job. Every sector counts its people a little differently, and that is where the mistakes happen.
Retail & hospitality
Function rooms, beer gardens and the terrace all count. Seated capacity alone rarely settles it.
Places of worship
The wedding and the funeral put you over, not the average Sunday. And you stay standard tier at any size.
Education & childcare
Sports day, the school play, parents' evening. Education stays standard tier however large it gets.
Sports & leisure
Your peak is a Monday evening, not a Tuesday lunchtime. Count lifeguards, instructors and contractors.
Visitor attractions
Count everyone inside the buildings at one moment, not the day's total admissions.
Hotels
The wedding in the function suite, plus residents, plus the night team.
Village & community halls
A private hire your committee didn't organise can still put the hall in scope.
Source: Home Office impact assessment, standard-tier central estimate 154,600, range 123,900 to 177,000.
The whole of standard tier
Four procedures. No physical measures, no assessment.
Standard tier asks you to have four public protection procedures in place, so far as is reasonably practicable, and to notify the SIA. That is the legal duty in full. No cameras, no bollards, no vulnerability assessment. Those belong to enhanced tier.
Evacuation
Getting people away from danger by moving them out.
Two routes that lead to genuinely different places, an assembly point, and a named person who decides. The Home Office's own worked example is a 400-seat restaurant: the front door onto the pavement, and a side door into somewhere else entirely.
Invacuation
Moving people to somewhere safer inside the building.
The procedure most venues have never planned. It needs an alert of its own, because the fire tone would send everyone in exactly the wrong direction. It also needs a safer room, and a way to give the all-clear.
Lockdown
Securing the premises so people cannot enter or leave.
Who calls it and who acts on it. Which doors, shutters and lights, in what order. And the harder half: knowing when locking down would put people at more risk, not less.
Communication
Telling staff and the public what is happening and what to do.
A named communicator, a chain of command, and the systems you actually have: the PA, the radios, the staff WhatsApp. Plus the words themselves, written in advance rather than invented on the night.
What you are actually paying for
Writing them is the easy half.
Writing four procedures is an afternoon, once you know what belongs in them. Still having current ones in three years, with a briefed team, after two treasurers and half your volunteers have moved on, is the rest of the work. Muster does both halves. It walks you through the drafting so there is less room to get it wrong, then it keeps the result current.
Guided drafting, not a blank page
Each procedure is built by answering plain questions about your building and your people: the routes, the safer rooms, who decides, what gets said. The guidance's must/should/could wording is carried through, so a recommendation is never dressed up as a requirement.
Versions you can point to
Every edit is kept, with who changed what and when. You can always show which procedure was in force on a given date, and what it said.
A register that outlives your volunteers
Who was briefed, on which version, and when. Change a procedure and the people briefed on the old one are flagged for re-briefing. Turnover stops quietly undoing your work.
Drills, reviews and reminders
Log an exercise in a minute. Set the annual review once and get nudged before it lapses, or when the building changes. Nothing depends on anyone remembering.
An evidence pack in one click
Current procedures, version log, briefing status, drill history, review dates and your notification record, all in one PDF, for a single site or across a whole portfolio.
Many sites, properly
A diocese, trust or council sees every site's status at a glance; each parish or school edits only its own. One invoice, real delegation, no shared logins.
The notification, tracked
Record when you notified the SIA, who did it and the reference you got back. Muster tracks the notification. It cannot file it, and nor can anyone else until the portal opens.
Your data stays in the UK
UK hosting, a data processing agreement you can hand to your board, and a published sub-processor list. The person asking is usually a safeguarding lead, and they will ask.
Leaving made easy
Full export of everything you have put in, in open formats, whenever you want it. Committees are right to fear lock-in, so we removed the lock.
To be plain about it: standard tier carries no legal duty to document any of this. That duty applies to enhanced tier only. What you are buying is the guided path through it, so there is less room to get it wrong, and the readiness to show what you have in place. Not a record the law requires you to keep.
Pricing
Prices with the VAT already in them.
Churches, halls and charities cannot reclaim VAT, so quoting ex-VAT would just be a smaller number that isn’t true. These are the amounts that leave your account. Founding members save 50% for the continuous life of their subscription: an early decision should buy time to prepare and a price that stays low, not a manufactured deadline.
One venue
Founding member · 50% off£14.99£7.50/ month inc. VAT
Against the Home Office’s own estimate of roughly £330 a year for a standard-tier premises to meet its duties. Everything in the list below, for one site, no call required. Pay today, with a full refund available during your first 14 days if it is not right for you.
Founding member: half price for as long as you stay. Subscribe before 5 April 2027 and the 50% stays on your subscription for its whole life, monthly or annual. Not an introductory rate that creeps up in year two.
214 days left · the date tracks the Act’s expected commencement
Dioceses, trusts & councils
Custom pricing
based on your sites and setup, inc. VAT
Every site under one organisation, with per-site delegation, a portfolio status board, consolidated evidence packs and a single invoice. Priced against how many sites you hold and how they’re set up, not per seat — book a call and we’ll quote against your actual list of sites.
Book a callA word we won’t use
There is currently no such thing as ‘Martyn’s Law compliant’.
We will never tell you we made you compliant.
The law is named after a man who was murdered at the Manchester Arena in 2017. His mother campaigned for a decade to get it passed. The least any vendor owes that is not overselling what a subscription can do.
Neither the Home Office, SIA, or the National Counter Terrorism Security Office endorse any third-party products offered by the private sector in respect of compliance with this legislation.
So Muster claims exactly one thing: that when someone asks what your procedures are, who has been briefed on them and when you last practised, you can answer in under a minute.
Questions people actually ask
Straight answers, including the unhelpful ones.
Do I have to buy anything to comply with Martyn's Law?
No. The Home Office, the SIA and NaCTSO are all clear that no third-party product is required or endorsed. Our free guide takes you through the whole thing at zero cost, and it is genuinely complete. People pay us for the admin afterwards: keeping procedures versioned, tracking who has been briefed, and producing the evidence in one go.
Does standard tier require me to document anything?
Not legally. The duty to document procedures applies to enhanced tier only. At standard tier the guidance calls documentation good practice. It is a "should", not a "must", and we will never tell you otherwise. Muster exists so you can demonstrate what you have in place, not because a law says you must file it.
When does it start?
Commencement is expected in spring 2027, and the SIA has signalled that consistently, but it is subject to Parliamentary confirmation. Premises get three months from commencement to notify the SIA. The notification portal is not live yet, and the SIA has confirmed you will not be able to notify until it opens. We are watching for it, and we will tell you the day it does.
Can Muster notify the SIA for me?
No, and nobody can. The portal does not exist yet, and when it does, the legal responsibility to notify cannot be delegated. What Muster does is make sure it does not slip: we will tell you when the portal opens, remind you while your three months are running, and keep the record afterwards: that you notified, when, by whom, and under what reference. It tracks the notification. It does not file it.
What if my premises only crosses 200 occasionally?
That is one of the genuinely ambiguous cases, and our scope checker will say so rather than force you into a tier. The test is what it is reasonable to expect from time to time at peak, not your average week. A church at 80 most Sundays that holds a 300-person funeral needs to think it through. We will show you how, and point you at the guidance.
Are you endorsed by the Home Office or the SIA?
No. Nobody is. The Home Office has stated plainly that none of them endorse third-party products for this legislation. Any vendor implying otherwise is telling you something untrue.
Start with the only question that matters: does it apply to you?
Six questions, a cited answer, and a result you can download and take to your committee. Free, and no account needed.