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Pilots of a common framework of professional standards have been launched by local authority trading standards and environmental health officers working with the regulatory outcomes experts LBRO.

The transparent competency framework for regulators has already been successfully used by HSE, the Office of Rail Regulation and by health and safety teams in local authorities, and is now being taken forward with supporting development tools for other local regulatory services, and national regulators.

The approach is part of the Government's plan to develop professional standards and end tick-box regulation, and provides regulatory organisations with cost effective means of maintaining a competent workforce. Application of the standards will lead to better outcomes for business and the economy, as well as citizens - the ultimate beneficiaries of good regulation.

LBRO Chairman Clive Grace said: Everyone depends on professional regulators, all day, every day, to keep us safe at work, on the railways, at home; to ensure the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat is safe and healthy; to ensure we are not ripped off, and a thousand more reasons besides. Professional standards are essential 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."

Details can be found on LBRO's website: www.lbro.org.uk/lbro-projects-professional-competency.html

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