Sustainability reporting is now a global profession. This is the framework being built to give it shape and standing.
A certificate in GRI, IFRS S1/S2 or ESRS proves you studied a standard. It does not prove you can implement it: set a reporting boundary, build data that survives assurance, take a disclosure through sign-off. SRCF closes that gap: it defines the work itself — role by role, as tasks, outputs, evidence and observable proficiency.
From London Reporting Academy — the global centre of reporting practice. One in-house technical review pass over all 81 units is complete; independent review and employer validation are the next gates, and both are open.
The competence gap ↓
The market can verify what people have studied. It cannot verify what they can implement in practice.
You can hold certificates in three reporting standards and still be unable to close a reporting cycle: scope the boundary, run the materiality process, build data collection that survives audit, marshal the evidence, land the disclosure through governance. Knowing the clauses is not the job. The job is implementation: a chain of tasks and outputs — and until now the profession has had no shared definition of it.
That is the gap SRCF is built to close: 81 competency units describing the real work — each with its tasks, expected outputs, quality risks, evidence and observable proficiency at three levels — so capability can finally be described, developed, compared and verified.
One register, working for every side of the profession.
The same register, read end to end for one side of it: for individuals, for companies and reporting teams, for universities and educators.
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The profession · who builds it
The stakes · what reporting is forSix role profiles
The framework is read through roles: each profile names the competency units the role depends on, the target proficiency level for every unit, and the evidence an employer or reviewer would expect to see. All 6 profiles map all 81 units — 486 role–unit mappings, each carrying a target level, an evidence expectation and a written rationale.
Three proficiency levels
Every unit is observable at three levels, calibrated by fixed rules — so a level claim means the same thing in every domain and can be evidenced and confirmed.
Nine competency domains
Under the roles sits a structured register: 9 domains, 25 areas and 81 competency units, every object with a stable ID that survives releases, exports and review.
One ecosystem: define the work, then learn it, practise it, prove it, apply it.
The framework is the foundation of a professional ecosystem — from London Reporting Academy, the global centre of reporting practice. It is built free end first, and each stage that makes a claim about somebody opens only when the previous one has earned it: nothing will be certified until it can be assessed, and nothing will be assessed until the definition of competence has survived public challenge. Tools are not claims, so the ones we intend to publish free do not wait — a self-test that reports nothing about you to anyone makes no claim that could be wrong. For a reporting team that makes one continuum in a single language: see where your people stand against the framework today, practise against the gaps it exposes as those tools open, and evidence the capability once assessment has been piloted.
Free first, paid later. The register and the working packs are free today; the self-testing tools and the Practice Lab are in design, not available. Deep assessment is the paid end and waits for the pilot and for the separate Assessment and Credentials Board. Nothing in the Learn, Practise, Prove or Apply stages is open yet, and no SRCF status exists for any person, course, product or organisation to hold. The staging logic and evidence gates live on the roadmap.
Built with the people who do the work. That includes you.
The first full technical review pass over the Working Draft is complete — run in-house, not by independent reviewers. 81 units, 102 review questions, 20 evidenced comments, both Critical findings resolved: a register checked end to end, not an independently reviewed one.
The independent round is what comes next, and it is open — appointed external reviewers who have signed conflicts and independence declarations, working in a private, authenticated portal where every comment is object-linked and evidence-based, and valid, in-scope comments receive a documented decision on the record.
Content is published as versioned release snapshots with stable IDs and content hashes. Nothing is silently edited — changes enter through dispositioned comments and a change log.