For dioceses, trusts and councils
One law, two hundred buildings, and nobody whose job this is.
Martyn's Law lands hardest on organisations that hold many small sites run by volunteers and part-time staff. Muster gives you the whole estate on one board, without asking a single parish or school to work out the legislation on its own.
How it works
Start with the list. Everything follows from it.
The hardest part of this at scale is not the procedures. It is knowing which of your sites the law actually touches, and that is a question you can answer in one pass rather than site by site.
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Send us your list
A spreadsheet of your sites with what each one is used for and a rough peak headcount. Most organisations already hold this somewhere, often in an insurance schedule or an asset register.
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Get one scope report
Which sites are in scope, which are standard tier, which are enhanced, and which are genuinely ambiguous and need someone to look at them properly. That last column is the one your board will ask about.
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Set up delegation
Each parish, school or centre gets its own login and sees only its own records. You see all of them. Nobody shares a password, which is how records rot.
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Watch the board
Per-site status at a glance: procedures in place, share of people briefed on the current version, last drill, next review due, notification recorded. Red, amber, green.
Who this is for
Bodies that sit above a lot of small buildings.
Dioceses and denominational offices
Often hundreds of parishes, all standard tier under the worship rule however large they get.
Multi-academy trusts
Twenty schools with twenty different lockdown procedures written by twenty different people.
Leisure trusts
Community Leisure UK members alone run sites across England, Wales and Scotland with tens of thousands of staff and volunteers.
Local authorities and parish councils
Halls, libraries, museums, leisure centres and depots, usually managed by people with several other jobs.
Village hall associations
County associations sitting above hundreds of committees, each run by volunteers who did not sign up for this.
Scout, Guide and youth organisations
County and regional bodies holding a long tail of small buildings.
What your board will ask
Three questions, and honest answers to all of them.
“Are we compliant?”
There is currently no such thing as Martyn's Law compliant, and anyone who tells your board otherwise is overselling. What you can say is which sites are in scope, what procedures each has in place, who has been briefed and when each was last reviewed. That is a defensible position. Certification is not on offer from anyone.
“Do we legally have to keep these records?”
At standard tier, no. The duty to document applies to enhanced tier. We will not pretend otherwise to win the deal. What we would say is that across two hundred sites with volunteer turnover, the difference between having procedures and being able to show you have them is the entire practical question.
“What if we leave?”
You export everything in open formats, whenever you want, including after cancelling. No exit fee, no held data, no proprietary file that only we can open. Ask any vendor this question and watch what happens.
Send us the list and we will tell you what you are dealing with.
A scope report across your whole estate, before any money changes hands. If it turns out most of your sites are under 200, we will tell you that too.