Welcome to your Pearson BTEC Protective Services September 2026 subject update!
Hello colleagues,
Welcome back to a new academic year! We hope your September is off to a great start.
We want to share this update which contains post results services and teaching resources to enhance your classroom experience. Whether you’re a new or experienced teacher, our resources are here to support your success.
Let’s make this year fantastic together!
Best wishes,
Jenna Wyatt
Subject Advisor
September's update includes:
You can access Summer 2026 grade boundaries on our website. In addition to the official grade boundaries that are produced at subject level, we also provide notional grade boundaries at paper level. These can help you mark and assess future mocks.
• View grade boundaries
• View guidance on setting grade boundaries
ResultsPlus is our free online results analysis tool, that gives you a detailed breakdown of your students’ performance in Pearson Edexcel exams.
It provides you with the most detailed analysis available of your students’ performance. ResultsPlus will help you to identify topics and skills where your students could benefit from further learning – helping them gain a deeper understanding of their subject.
Teachers can sign into ResultsPlus using their Edexcel Online username and password if their account profile has ResultsPlus access granted by the Exams Officer.
Take a closer look at ResultsPlus
Examiner Reports can be obtained from ResultsPlus on results day by following the steps below:
• Log into Results Plus using your Edexcel Online details
• Once you are logged in under your centre, select 'ResultsPlus Analysis'.
• Then select 'Whole cohort results' followed by 'Cohort paper analysis'.
• Select the relevant qualification and series, eg 'GCE' and 'June 2026', followed by the relevant subject and 'View paper analysis'.
• Select 'Exam docs' and you will find the Examiner Report for that component.
You can also use our free Access to Scripts service to view your candidates’ marked exam scripts online or download as a PDF. It is available from results day until the 11th December 2026.
Providing a rich source of information, you can use this service to help make decisions about requesting a review of marking, but it can also help inform future teaching and learning and gives insights and visibility that performance data alone cannot provide.
Note, you will need 'Exam viewer' in your Edexcel Online profile if you want to download candidate scripts from results day. Please ask your Exams Officer if you need this adding to your profile.
Discover more about Access to Scripts, along with FAQs and a step-by-step User Guide.
View our Access to Scripts guide
If you're not happy with your students' results this summer, you should take the following steps:
• View the grade boundaries, question papers, mark schemes and examiner reports for the paper/qualification concerned.
• View your students’ scripts using our free access to scripts service.
• Log in to ResultsPlus to see how your students have performed on every question and compare their performance to the national average.
• If you are still unhappy with your students' results, you may apply for a review of marking via our post-results services.
Full details of all our post-results services are available on our website.
• Access teacher post-results support
The deadline for requesting a Review of marking and moderation (ROMM) is 24 September 2026 for GCSE, A level and International GCSE (Service 1, 2 and 3).
View our guide to post-results services
If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of a review of marking, you may wish to appeal against the decision. We will allow the head of centre (or designated member of the centre’s senior management team or examinations manager) 30 calendar days from the receipt of the outcome of the review of marking, during which an appeal may be lodged using the webform. There is further guidance on appeals on our website.
Applications for appeals may only be accepted from a head of centre (on behalf of a candidate or a group of candidates) or private candidates.
Our Principal Examiners provide detailed overarching evaluation reports for each exam series. Please note you will need your Edexcel Online log in to access them.
BTEC Level 1/Level 2 First Award in Public Services
Examiner Reports for Unit 1 and 6
BTEC Level 3 Nationals in Uniformed Protective Services
Examiner Reports for Unit 2 and 6
Where to find the raw marks and grade points?
The conversions for your students are available in Edexcel Online following this route:
1. BTEC
2. External Assessment
3. View Results by Assessment Booking
4. Choose June 2026 series.
5. If you leave the programme and unit fields blank the search will return all bookings for the series.
6. Select the unit you are interested in (tick in the left-hand column)
7. Choose Export results
You will get a csv file with the information you want.
The raw mark is in the column headed 'Score'
The grade point is in the column headed UMS.
Please note that in order to access this you will need the ‘Results’ box ticked in your Edexcel Online user profile. It is not the policy of all centres to make this available so you may have to ask your Exams Officer to print out the spreadsheet for you.
The Pearson-set Theme Release for 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2027 can be accessed on HN Global or below for Higher National Diploma and the Higher National Certificate in Public Services.
Just a reminder to those delivering BTEC L3 in Uniformed Protective Services that Unit 1 is assessed through a Pearson Set Assignment, which is released annually by Pearson and must be used for that assessment cycle:
Unit 1 Pearson Set Guidance, Topic and Theme 2026-27
Watch the recorded training on how to approach a set theme:
A focus on Pearson set theme recording
Unit 1 was covered in the centre standardisation materials in 2024 so please see the materials below for guidance:
Centre Standardisation Material - Unit 1 - August 2024
Centre Standardisation Material Commentary - Unit 1 - August 2024
The Vocational Quality Assurance Management (VQAM) team offer a comprehensive range of free development and networking events. They are designed to meet the needs of different centre types and support everyone involved with quality assurance.
Working with us is about to get easier. The Digital Assessment Plan is now live, giving centres a simpler way to plan assessments.
Qualifications in scope:
For a full subject by subject list of qualifications in scope please see Appendix A of the centre guide .
The DAP will NOT be available for:
Please continue to use the Excel template found on the BTEC Forms and Guides
webpage. We will keep you updated as the service expands to cover additional programmes in future.
Training and support
Join an interactive training session to see how to access DAP through Edexcel Online, create and submit plans, and use key features - with time for questions. Prefer informal support? Drop into one of our regular DAP Drop-In Sessions for quick answers and to share feedback. Both run throughout the rollout, so join whenever suits you.
Helpful resources:
Centre User Guide/FAQs/Quals in Scope
Training sessions and Drop-in Sessions
What do you need to do?
✓ Access DAP through Edexcel Online
✓ Read the Centre User Guide
✓ Book a training session (if you haven't already)
✓ Join a drop-in for extra support
✓ Check back for the latest updates
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I hope you found this update useful. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch using the contact details below.
