Towards best practice guide for regulators

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:

• orient their work around regulatory harms
• meet their objectives, functions and duties.

Support to apply this tool

• Towards Best Practice – Better Regulation Victoria

Contact Better Regulation Victoria at contact@betterreg.vic.gov.au for more information.