Towards best practice guide for regulators

The Towards Best Practice Guide provides 10 principles regulators can implement to move towards best practice in their operations.

Details

Topic: Regulatory reform

Audiences: State government - regulatory operations, State government - regulatory policy

Regulatory functions: Practice and processes, Compliance and enforcement, Skills and capability

Industry: All relevant industries

Document types: Checklist, Fact sheet, Form, Framework, Guide, Playbook, Report, Research and analysis, Rubric, Template

Author: Better Regulation Victoria

Date published: 14 March 2023

The Towards Best Practice Guide provides 10 regulatory practice principles to help regulators understand and implement best practice across strategy, operations and enabling practices.

The guide was co-designed with regulators and includes a suite of tools tailored to specific roles and activities. The suite includes:

Towards Best Practice: A Guide for Regulators – the 10 regulatory practice principles and how to implement them
Supporting Best Practice: A Companion Paper for Regulator Boards and Chairs – how regulator boards and chairs can implement the Towards Best Practice Guide
Equipping Best Practice: A Companion Paper for Departments – how departments can use the 10 principles to support policy development in regulatory settings (also considering the Statement of Expectations)
Towards Best Practice: Handbook – how to implement the 10 principles, including examples of delivery approaches
Towards Best Practice: Explanatory Guide – the background and intent of the 10 principles.

How this tool can help

These tools can help all Victorian regulators improve their activities and move towards best practice.

Regulators play an important role in protecting communities from risk of harm and strive for continuous improvement in their operations and supporting systems. These tools describe high-level approaches that regulators can take to: