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16 Mar 2022 Environment

Joint press release from AGCARM and NOAH UK and NZ animal health associations welcome regulatory co-operation

The animal health associations in the UK (NOAH) and New Zealand (Agcarm) have welcomed the publication by the countries’ regulatory agencies of guidance that will enable simultaneous review of animal medicine marketing authorisation applications in the two countries.

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01 Feb 2022 Home affairs

Institutional abuse and neglect: time for policy and regulatory reform?

Attention to the abuse and neglect of people in institutional settings is at the forefront of existing and proposed policy agendas. Investigations, reviews and calls for action feature in the workload of the Joint Committee on Human Rights; the Health and Social Care Select Committee; the Equality and Human Rights Committee and the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Most recently, the failure of existing regulatory, corporate and legislatives regimes to safeguard people with learning disabilities and autism against poor inpatient care resulted in the development of the National Safe and Wellbeing Programme by the NHS Executive in 2021. That policy initiative acknowledged that “current quality oversight processes are not always robust enough to identify poor standards of care particularly in relation to people’s physical wellbeing and quality of life.” In this blog, Kirsty Keywood and Margaret Flynn use their experience of undertaking and contributing to a number of Safeguarding Adult Revie

24 Nov 2021 Health

We must unlock the full potential of cell and gene therapies

In July, I was delighted to chair a Policy Connect roundtable on cell and gene therapies, to consider how they can contribute to better patient care, the wider health service and the economy.

22 Nov 2021 Culture

Harnessing tech in the online advertising ecosystem

There is political resolve to change the UK regulatory system in response to the challenges thrown up by fast-evolving technologies and growing complexity in the online world.

22 Oct 2021 Communities

Under-regulated supported housing failed vulnerable tenants – a complete overhaul of the sector is needed

“Too big to fail.” An expression that conjures up images of overleveraged investment banks and cavalier financiers, isn’t a phrase you would normally associate with a sector housing vulnerable people. Yet that’s exactly what’s being said about the providers of supported exempt accommodation.

17 Sep 2021 Political parties

Reforming the Better Regulation Framework is an opportunity to work more closely with Parliament

The Regulatory Policy Committee's objective is to improve the evidence and analysis prepared by departments in impact assessments over time; one of the ways that this can happen is for Parliament to make more use of our opinions.

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20 Jul 2021 Economy

GGF Launches New Product Substitution Guidance

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06 Jul 2021 Economy

Mobile UK Provides Recommendations to PSA Consultation on its 15th Code of Practice

Mobile UK has submitted its response to the Phone-paid Services Authority’s consultation on its draft 15th Code of Practice.

What the pandemic has taught us about financial resilience

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26 Apr 2021 Economy

What the pandemic has taught us about financial resilience

If the experience of the past 12 months has taught us anything, it's the importance of financial resilience. And no group of organisations understands that better than the nation's network of building societies. We sit down with Mike Regnier, the chair of the Building Societies Association, to hear his thoughts on how the UK can build back better

15 Apr 2021 Culture

We need a more religiously literate media if we are to build a more harmonious society

Too often media reporting on religion can be sensationalist and reinforce problematic stereotypes. We need a fundamental shift in a media culture to address these disparities and foster a religiously literate media environment.

08 Apr 2021 Culture

British wrestling has been left unregulated for decades – it’s time we took this industry seriously

Professional wrestling in Britain is something we should be proud of, but we need to establish minimum standards and develop good practice.

06 Apr 2021 Culture

Government can’t tackle online harm without cracking down on online scams

Failing to tackle online scams in the Online Harms Bill makes a mockery of the government's promise to create world-leading online protections and will hit vulnerable people hardest.

16 Nov 2020 Home affairs

A public regulator and tough new standards are crucial to ensuring the internet is safe for everyone

Social media and internet companies have repeatedly failed to recognise, let alone get to grips with extremism on their platforms. Future regulation must ensure they are not allowed to use ‘grey zone’ excuses to justify inaction.

07 Sep 2020 Health

We need honest advertising where body images have been digitally altered on social media

My Bill is not a call to ban, but a call to inform. Knowledge of when an image has been digitally manipulated will have positive mental health benefits for a wide cross section of our society affected by body image.

30 Jul 2020 Culture

Social media companies must wake up and stop their platforms from becoming safe places for hate

There has been an abject failure to clamp down on those who see social media platforms as an unfettered opportunity to abuse. When we are seeing a terrifying increase in antisemitism this cannot go on.

21 Jul 2020 Coronavirus

Coronavirus has raised the stakes for online gambling reform, now government must act

The Government cannot continue to delay and must take urgent steps now to reduce online gambling harm while vulnerable people are at risk.

16 Jul 2020 Culture

We must take urgent action to protect thousands more workers from exploitation in the fashion industry

A ‘Fit to Trade’ Licensing Scheme will seek to ensure workers are protected from forced labour, debt bondage and mistreatment.

30 Apr 2020 Coronavirus

To tackle misinformation, Parliament must ensure powerful companies are held to account

There must be sufficient parliamentary oversight of the regulator, independent of government, which is why we have called for the DCMS Committee to have statutory power of veto over the regulator’s chief executive.