You do not have to buy anything. Here is what else works.

The Home Office factsheets and the statutory guidance under section 27 of the Act tell you everything the law asks of standard tier. Our own free guide walks through the four procedures with prompts. Write them in a document, keep a spreadsheet of who was briefed and when, put a reminder in the diary.

This is a perfectly good answer, and it is the one we would give a small hall with one caretaker and a treasurer who likes spreadsheets. It stops being good when the people change: the spreadsheet lives on someone's laptop, the procedures get edited in place and nobody can say which version a volunteer actually read.

If you already pay for a system that handles fire risk assessments, incident reporting and training records, adding a Martyn's Law module to it may be the least disruptive route, and one login for everything has real value.

Two cautions. These suites are built for the enhanced-tier world of vulnerability assessments and security measures, and can quietly push a village hall towards paperwork it has no duty to produce. And their pricing is usually per seat, which penalises exactly the volunteer-heavy organisations the Act reaches most.

For an 800-plus venue, a site with several responsible persons, or a building where the right procedures depend on layout and risk, an experienced counter-terrorism security adviser earns their fee. They will also tell you things a questionnaire cannot.

For a standard-tier church or school, a consultant tends to produce a good document once. The records problem — briefing turnover, re-briefing when the wording changes, showing the trail two years later — starts the day they leave.

Muster does the administrative half of standard tier and nothing else: scoping with cited reasoning, the four procedures with a version history that cannot be rewritten, a register with briefings tied to exact versions, exercise and review logs, and an evidence pack with your own branding on it.

It does not yet cover enhanced tier, vulnerability assessments, alerting, hardware or fire and health-and-safety in general — enhanced tier is next on our roadmap, not something we are bolting on early. Until it ships, one of the options above is the right answer and we would rather say so than sell you something that does not fit.