Approved Centre Status

AssetCo PLC
23 April 2008



For Immediate Release                                              23 April 2008


                              AssetCo plc Awarded
         Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) Approved Centre Status


AssetCo plc is please to announce that it has been awarded Approved Centre
status by the Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA).


The approved training and assessment centre is headed by Jeff Ord CBE, Managing
Director of AssetCo's Emergency Resource business. It provides the skills and
requisite management and quality assurance processes required in order to offer
Workplace Assessor (A1), Internal Verification (V1), and other awards for all
types of UK vocational fire fighting qualifications, including Operation in the
Community (level 3 fire fighting) and Watch Manager status.

The Centre is headquartered at AssetCo's Training and Business Support Services
Centre of Excellence in Ireland which is jointly supported by Enterprise
Ireland. Internal verification at the Centre and future satellite assessment
facilities will be managed by Centre Co-ordinator, Jim Robson, previously Head
of the Scottish Fire Services College, and an external verifier for SQA in all
fire and rescue service qualifications and for OCR for learning, development and
management.


John Shannon, Chief Executive Officer, AssetCo plc said.

'This award demonstrates that the skills and systems we have in place to
register, administer, assess and certify candidates are to the highest UK
standards. For our Fire and Rescue (FRS) clients in the UK and overseas it means
we can provide a service either at the Centre or in their own workplace which
enables them to quickly, efficiently and cost effectively develop, train and
qualify candidates at a pace few would be independently able to achieve. It also
provides a means by which they can continuously maintain and refresh the skills
of their people to ensure qualifications are current and to the latest standard
- a significant benefit when faced with the considerable costs associated with
setting up and maintaining their own in-house approved centre.'



For further information please contact:

AssetCo plc
Sue Alsop                       Tel: [phone]

Buchanan Communications         Tel: [phone]
Isabel Podda


Notes for editors:

International Rescue Instructors Authority (IRIA) (www.iria.org).

Higgins and Langley Memorial Awards in Swift Water Rescue 
(http://higginsandlangley.org/mediarelease.shtml

About AssetCo (www.assetco.com) AssetCo plc, (AIM : ASTO), is a leading provider
of outsourced and managed support services to the emergency and homeland
securities markets in Great Britain and Northern Ireland and emerging markets
overseas. The company employs some 860 people in 12 locations.


Subsidiaries of AssetCo plc include:

AssetCo Emergency Limited                AssetCo Group Limited
Papworth Specialist Vehicles Limited     AS Fire and Rescue Limited
Collins Youldon                          FSE Limited
Todd Research Limited                    BlueAmberRed Limited
Simentra Limited                         AssetCo Emergency Resource Limited
AES Group                                UV Modular Limited
The Vehicle Application Centre           RIG Systems Limited




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