Posted By Mark Bywater All, I have recently been led to believe that my services at my current employer are no longer required so I have been making provision for a life outside employed work into self employment. I recently purchased the licence for the new Working Safely programme and attended a very interesting seminar at Leeds to introduce the new pack. My current employer is approachable and at my recent "one to one" with my manager I told her of this situation. The company is now quite interested in asking me to deliver the WS course for them and has asked me to come up with some ideas for payment to cover this, as I will still be an employee (for the time being). However I want to keep control over the licence. Have any other colleagues been in a similar situation, what was the outcome and what advice has anyone for me in negotiating the best terms I can get. Any ideas would be welcome. Kind regards, Mark

Posted By sylvia If you keep income below a threshold (not sure what it is now, about £3k pa?) there will be no NI to pay, but you need to get a certificate from DSS to confirm for some employers. IR tax still payable, obviously. You will need to self-assess, and although S/E incomes under a certain limit(was £15,000 pa) mean can just do a 3 line account summary, there is still a lot of hassle with forms etc.