A warm welcome to Habia, the Standard Setting Body for the Hair and Beauty industry. We set the National Occupational Standards and endorse excellence

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Our four strategic pillars are -

Standards, Education, Excellence and Careers. 

We work with organisations, agencies, educators employers and experts to...

- develop national occupation standards (NOS)

- champion high quality education

-recognise and endorse excellence 

- promote careers in the hair and beauty sector.

Our Board and 'Expert Groups' include highly qualified industry and education specialists, many with 25+ yrs in education. They have taught, assessed, verified, examined, managed and judged. Work with us, the Standard Setting Body, if you value quality and high standards.  Be sure to research widely and choose wisely.

Find out more about the new licence scheme - how will it be developed? what does it mean for practitioners?  how it will impact  client safety?  how to ensure your advertising is legal. 

For more details, see the Question and Answer document on our 'News' page...

Thank you to all those who completed the survey to feed views into the review of the National Occupational Standards (NOS) - each of the following areas were reviewed - Hair, barbering, beauty, nails, trichology, well-being and holistic (Spa)  and aesthetics

The standards are now approved and published

Open to Habia Education members, see more details at the membership area, click below..... 

We can help you navigate the world of education and training courses....

 .....to find out more details about our Habia endorsements:

• Habia Approved Training Provider
• Habia CPD Endorsed Provider
• Habia Recognised Brand Training
• Habia Centre of Expertise.

Prospective learners,  choose wisely, look for the Habia endorsement  when choosing where to study.

Click on the button below to go to our section on Standards....

Get in  touch to see how we can work together to support this wonderful sector that encompasses  hair,  beauty, barbering, nails, makeup, spa, wellness, aesthetics....

Habia has worked with international partners for many years, contact us about the opportunities..

 'I've worked with Habia for many years as an expert helping to develop waxing standards. It's important to work with Habia as the Standard Setting Body (SSB) to ensure high quality, professional standards, development of codes of practice and for delivering CPD opportunities '

Sam Marshall, The Skin Guru

Skills competitions are very popular in our sector, they give amazing opportunities for individuals to 'go further, faster'.

Team UK won the Gold Medal for Beauty Therapy in the world finals in

• Brazil 2015
• Abu Dhabi 2017
• Kazan, Russia 2019

This means UK Beauty Therapy has been 'best in the world' for 6 yrs-  amazing!