Learning and Supportive Culture
Local authorities use diverse means to support business compliance and prosperity and to protect citizens, workers and the environment. Achieving better outcomes depends on the careful allocation of resources across the range of regulatory activities, extending beyond traditional enforcement to intelligence sharing, advice and guidance, and education and awareness campaigns. Using local information and professional judgment, local authorities are best placed to assess which tool, regulatory or not, will achieve the national enforcement priorities in their areas.
Professional standards are key to delivering effective regulation, and depend on a robust means to develop and maintain them beyond the qualification stage, to ensure they remain relevant to priorities.
LBRO is working with the world class coalition to introduce a common and transparent framework of professional standards of competency. This will improve outcomes, increase flexibility and reduce costs. It will also provide regulators with an approach that is focused on supporting businesses into compliance rather than ‘ticking boxes', and embedding the better regulation principles consistently. The framework is currently being piloted with the intention of preparing it for launch in 2011.
The following paper provides an overview of the project.
