In September 2025, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) published its Trusted Third-Party AI Assurance Roadmap. This roadmap set out government's plan to professionalise and grow the UK's AI assurance market, in line with commitment 29 of the AI Opportunities Action Plan. The roadmap set out four immediate actions: convening a consortium to professionalise the market, developing a skills and competencies framework, mapping information access best practice between assurance providers and those they assess, and launching an AI Assurance Innovation Fund.

On Monday 28/09/2026 techUK organised a conference on "One year on: the Trusted Third-Party AI Assurance Roadmap". The conference inclded a panel on "Skills and competencies frameworks" that hosted RDF member B. Stahl