Customs backpedals on BSI software kitemark

After being ambushed by software developers and the IT Faculty at Softworld on Thursday 3 March, Customs officials played down their plans to set up a financial software kitemark scheme with the British Standards Institute.

An 11am presentation from Customs head of audit R&D ended with a Q&A session at which officials got direct feedback from the software industry on its kitemark plans.

The day before the talk, business software trade body BASDA issued a press release rejecting the proposal and urging the institute to consider the ICAEW IT Faculty's scheme.

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