Institute of Regulation Annual Conference
Institute of Regulation held its second annual conference on Thursday 7 March 2024.
Exploring ‘A smarter future for UK regulation?’, the conference attracted over 160 delegates from a wide range of organisations, regulatory experts and professionals.
Conference delegates heard from Minister for Investment and Regulatory Reform, Lord Dominic Johnson, who recognised the importance of regulation to the UK, and urged regulators to work to ensure that regulation is proportionate and promotes growth. He acknowledged the role the government and parliament also play to support effective regulation. He welcomed further contact with the UK regulatory community.
The conference opened with Sir Martyn Oliver giving his first public speech since taking his role as His Majesty’s Inspector at Ofsted, earlier this year. He made clear his commitment to good regulation and the priority he attaches to ensuring that the 97,000 organisations inspected or regulated by Ofsted do the best job they can, particularly for those children and young people in vulnerable situations. He signalled that Ofsted was about to start a ‘Big Listen’ to connect with Ofsted’s stakeholders, including in the UK regulatory community.
Marcial Boo, Institute of Regulation chair, in welcoming delegates to the conference, encouraged all UK regulators to learn from each other so that smarter regulation can help UK businesses to grow and public services to improve, with appropriate protections for everyone.
Kirsty Dusting, Global VP, RegTech, Objective Corporation, encouraged delegates to learn from international good practice, including in the use of emerging technologies.
Hosted by the Institute of Regulation and Objective, the event is now becoming established as the UK’s leading conference in regulation.
Notes for editors
Institution of Regulation (IoR) is a membership organisation. We’re a professional network, providing professional development in regulation and promoting good practice in regulation. We believe good regulation is essential for a thriving economy and society. We aspire to become the home of good regulation.
Institution of Regulation (IoR) established as a membership organisation in 2021.
Today we’re a thriving professional and expert community:
· over 350 regulatory experts in our membership network
· over 30 corporate members, regulators based in the UK and Channel Islands
· over 100 individual members
· a rapidly growing network of affiliate members from business and third sector organisations
Institute of Regulation grew from an informal network of 35 non-financial regulators, who began meeting in 2019. We are a charitable not-for-profit company, registered with Companies House (13628098) and are currently applying to the Charity Commission for charitable status.
For further information, please contact info@ioregulation.org or Louisa Dale, director@ioregulation.org.
Objective’s Data in Regulation webinar, where Kirsty Dusting, Naomi Nicholson and a panel of regulatory leaders from the Office of Rail and Road, Equality and Human Rights Commission and Pubs Code Adjudicator will discuss insights and share experiences from Objective RegWorks' latest research. Find out more join the conversation - 10am, Thursday 21 March. Register here .