In this month's podcast from the @ Institute of Regulation, our Chair @ Marcial Boo speaks to the Chair of the UK Government's @ Regulatory Policy Committee, @ Stephen Gibson. He talks about the RPC's role to help improve UK regulation, advising Parliament on the quality of the evidence and analysis in any new regulatory measures proposed by the government
This podcast will facilitate a discussion with two senior figures from the General Medical Council: CEO and Registrar Charlie Massey and Director of Registration and Revalidation Una Lane. They will discuss how the GMC regulates and the challenges it faces, as well as wider issues of interest to other regulators. The audience of the Regulation Podcast is professional regulators and those interested in regulation. The Institute of Regulation has 60 corporate regulator members, around 40%...
This month's podcast from the Institute of Regulation asks: how do you set up a regulator from scratch? It's a question relevant not only to the politicians, civil servants and staff establishing the new football regulator or the armed forces commissioner, but to everyone wanting regulators to work well. Discussing their experiences on the podcast are Sir Ian Kennedy, the first chair of the Healthcare Commission and the MPs' watchdog IPSA, and Natalie Prosser, founding CEO of the...
In this month's Regulation Podcast, Chair of the Institute Marcial Boo interviews the three winners of the inaugural Institute of Regulation Annual Awards: Mary Jervis of the Information Commissioner’s Office, winner of the award for Innovation in Regulation (sponsored by PA Consulting); Matt Westmore of the NHS Health Research Authority, winner of the Collaboration in Regulation Award (sponsored by Nous Group); and Tom Vincent of the Food Standards Agency, Winner of the Rising Star awa...
President Trump and his team are making major changes to the US government. This includes in regulation, where he has signed an executive order that, for every new regulation, there should be 10 that are culled. To find out the latest, the Regulation Podcast from the Institute of Regulation has spoken to Professor Cary Coglianese, director of the Penn Program of Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania, a leading centre of academic expertise. Prof. Coglianese explains to Institute’...
This month's Regulation Podcast interviews Grainne Moss, CEO of the world's first Ministry for Regulation in New Zealand. Set up less than a year ago, the Ministry aims to improve the 200 regulatory systems in New Zealand, remove unnecessary rules and ensure that any new regulation is necessary and likely to work as intended. Grainne describes some of their early wins and the challenges ahead, recognising that regulation, alongside legislation and taxation, is one of any government's most imp...
This month's podcast focuses on an issue that every regulator grapples with. How do you know whether there is too much regulation or too little? And how do regulators get the balance right? Martin Stanley, former CEO of the Postal Regulator (now part of Ofcom), the Competition Commission and author of ‘How to Be a Civil Servant’, discusses how to spot too much regulation and what to do about it and the risks of too little regulation. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers, but in this lates...
Many regulators work to an annual cycle, for the Advertising Standards Authority and the Food Standards Agency, December can be a busy month, with an increase in Christmas advertising and food consumption. This month's Regulation Podcast hears from Claire Forbes from the FSA and Matt Wilson from the ASA on how their regulators keep advertising honest and food safe.
This month's podcast focuses on how regulators can use communications to tell people how to comply with the rules you're enforcing. We hear from two engagement experts who've worked in regulators, to understand how to get messages across to diverse audiences through varied external and internal channels. A must-listen for everyone working in communications in a regulatory context. Episode 22 of the Regulation Podcast is hosted by Marcial Boo, chair Institute of Regulation, with contribu...
Regulation is evolving. No longer is it about command-and-control, tick-box inspections. And the risk-based, principled approach is changing too. Leading academics and practitioners now consider that regulators must think of their regulatory domain as a complex system with many actors. This has implications for how regulators approach their work, with a need for agility in their rules and their processes. Episode 21 of the Regulation Podcast in discussion with academic Martin de Bree from the...
This month's podcast focuses on the regulation of behaviour in the film, music and other creative industries, where a new regulator has been created. It aims to protect everyone in those industries from bullying and abuse from powerful executives or famous stars. The regulator is the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA).
The latest edition of The Regulation Podcast focuses on the concept of regulatory capture - what it is and how regulators can avoid getting caught - hearing the expert views of Dr Eva Heims of York University and Dr Justin Rex of Bowling Green University USA, drawing on case studies in their academic publications. A short guide to regulatory capture from Dr Heims is here: ‘Regulatory-capture-A-short-guide-for-practitioners.pdf’ She will also be contributing to our online workshop on regulato...
The latest Regulation Podcast focuses on AI and how regulators should respond to it. Two global experts, Prof. Julia Black of the LSE and Joey Conway of Deloitte, discuss what AI is, the problems and opportunities it brings, and how regulators should meet its challenges. The main recommendation to regulators is to learn more; and then to work with others. AI crosses sectors and national boundaries. Regulators must too. The Institute of Regulation is in contact with the UK's Digital Regulation...
The latest half-hour episode of the Regulation Podcast explores how to regulate vets, with speakers from our member the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. It presents a case study of one sector, where the regulator is working within outdated legislation and with the consequences of Covid, where more people bought pets but more vets left the profession. Like other regulators, the RCVS has conflicting stakeholders with different demands, ranging from pet owners and farmers through to scienti...
In this month's podcast, we discuss what it would mean for regulation to become a recognised profession. We hear from Leonie Milliner, CEO at the General Optical Council, Michael Hanton, Deputy Chief Regulator at Ofqual, and Meg Matthews, Head of Development and People at the Office for Students. They discuss what being a professional regulator means, how skills can be improved, and knowledge transferred, and how they describe what they do to people who don't understand regulation!
In this podcast we explore what makes a good regulation strategy – and find out why regulators must ensure their strategies are flexible and agile enough to meet the changing demands of society and modern industry. To discuss this challenge, our guest today is Andrea Sutcliffe CBE, Chief Executive and Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the independent regulator for nurses and midwives in the UK, and nursing associates in England. The NMC regulates over 800,000 professionals with ...
Matthew Gill, Programme Director at the Institute for Government and trustee of the IOR In today’s discussion will try to unpack the complex relationship between regulation and government and in particular explain and explore how improving one can boost outcomes for the other. To help with this meaty challenge, our guest today is Matthew Gill, Programme Director at the Institute for Government and something of an expert in both regulation and in the workings of government. Most recently Matth...
Guest: Prof. Martin Lodge, professor of political science and public policy at the London School of Economics Subject: “The fundamentals of regulation” Our latest podcast guest is Martin Lodge, professor of political science and public policy at the London School of Economics. Alongside his day job at the LSE, Martin runs the Institute of Regulation’s new two-day Fundamentals of Regulation course which is specifically designed as a foundation for regulatory professionals and aimed at th...
In Episode 1 of The Regulation Podcast, Founder of The Institute of Regulation and Chief Executive of Equality and Human Rights Commission, Marcial Boo, discusses: The key issues facing the regulation sector including the role of modern Regulators and regulation in improving public services,The skills required to drive forward the regulation sector and,The Institute of Regulation’s role in helping to professionalise the sector.
In Episode 2, Ofsted’s Matthew Coffey and Ofqual’s Michael Hanton discuss: The key issues facing the regulation of education including how regulation can accelerate education sector’ post Covid recovery,The skills required to drive forward the regulation sector and,The role of the Institute of Regulation in helping to share knowledge across the profession.