Governing Excellence Across Professional Education & Qualifications
BOMEQP is the independent British umbrella organisation providing governance, oversight and strategic direction to a global network of specialist accreditation and awarding bodies — each independently accountable, sector-focused, and held to the same uncompromising standard of professional integrity.
An Independent Governance Group Not a Certification Body
BOMEQP does not deliver training or award certificates itself. Instead, we set the governance framework, quality assurance standards and strategic direction that our family of specialist bodies operate within — each one independently accredited, sector-focused, and accountable to the same rigorous standards of professional integrity.
This structure exists for one reason: to keep standards-setting separate from certificate-issuing. Our subsidiary bodies compete on expertise within their own sectors; BOMEQP’s role is to make sure every one of them is held to the same uncompromising bar of governance, transparency and quality — the same principle that underpins Britain’s reputation for independent professional regulation.
What We Do Across The Network
Central Governance & Oversight
Board-level oversight of every subsidiary body’s constitution, conduct and standards compliance.
Quality Assurance Frameworks
Shared assessment criteria, audit cycles and continuous-improvement requirements applied consistently across the network.
Policy Harmonisation & Reporting
Common policy baselines — ethics, complaints handling, appeals, data protection — with transparent reporting back to the Group.
Institutional Development
Guidance, shared infrastructure and strategic support that let each subsidiary body focus on its sector rather than back-office governance.
Central Governance & Oversight
Board-level oversight of every subsidiary body’s constitution, conduct and standards compliance. We enforce independence checks and strategic alignment across all subsidiary organisations, isolating commercial pressures from educational standards.
Quality Assurance Frameworks
Shared assessment criteria, audit cycles and continuous-improvement requirements applied consistently across the network. Continuous-improvement requirements and periodic external audits ensure that training providers and subsidiary bodies maintain peak institutional rigour.
Policy Harmonisation & Reporting
Common policy baselines — ethics, complaints handling, appeals, data protection — with transparent reporting back to the Group. Unified ethics codes, streamlined appeals procedures, and central verification protocols ensure international credibility and compliance.
Institutional Development & Support
Guidance, shared infrastructure and strategic support that let each subsidiary body focus on its sector rather than back-office governance. Providing operational frameworks and strategic expansion pathways for international recognition.
Group Organisations
BOMEQP oversees a portfolio of independent organisations specialising in key professional sectors:
British Society of Evaluation and Certification Auditors (BSECA)
ISO standards and quality auditing frameworks.
British Society for Accreditation of Professional Engineers (BSAPE)
Engineering accreditation and professional competence standards.
British Institute of Leadership and Project Management (BILPM)
Leadership and project management development.
British Institute of Healthcare and Hospital Management (BIHHM)
Healthcare and hospital management frameworks.
British Organisation for Competence Assurance and Qualifications (BOCAQ)
Competence assurance and qualifications pathways.
International Organisation of Occupational Safety and Health – UK (IAOSH-UK)
Occupational safety and health management.
Royal Society for Lifting Engineering Standards (RSLES)
Lifting operations and engineering safety standards.
BOMEQP Three Tiers
Group Level Governance
Subsidiary Accrediting Bodies
Global Operational Network
Tier 1: Strategic Group Level
Strategic planning, policy harmonisation and quality oversight across the whole network. The Group sets the baseline constitution, complaints frameworks, and audit cycles without issuing certifications directly.
Tier 2: Subsidiary Bodies
Seven independent, sector-specific accrediting and awarding bodies, each governed under the BOMEQP framework and accountable to rigorous sector competence standards.
Tier 3: Global Network
Approved training providers, auditors, consultants and professionals operating internationally under our subsidiary bodies’ standards across 17+ countries.
Building the Standards Behind the Standards
Whether you lead an accrediting body seeking governance infrastructure, or a professional exploring one of our subsidiary bodies, BOMEQP is the framework of integrity behind every credential our network issues.