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The Better Regulation Executive: making regulation work for everyone
The Government is taking a comprehensive look at how public sector bureaucracy can be reduced and has asked frontline staff to help them identify areas for reform.
Submit your ideas here: Better Regulation Executive [External website]
In the public sector internal control processes – such as regulation, guidance, inspection, targets and budget controls – play an important role in ensuring public funds are spent properly and that services are delivered well.
We know that the public sector front line has concerns about the amount of time spent on unnecessary bureaucracy. Many departments are making real efforts to improve this situation and there is already much good work in this area but Delivering Better Regulation in the public sector report [PDF 123KB, 5 pages] goes one step further.
It brings cross–government agreement to making the way public services are administered more transparent and takes a pragmatic approach to ensuring a tangible and permanent reduction in unnecessary bureaucracy through:
This is a holistic approach that will help to improve the quality of public services through freeing the frontline to get on with their jobs.
Delivery cannot be done without the help of those at the front line. We need to hear their views in order to make a difference where it matters. By working together we can find ways that the government can do things differently to make it easier for the frontline to comply with necessary management requirements. That is why we are encouraging public sector staff to send us their suggestions for reducing bureaucracy to Better Regulation website.
All suggestions submitted will be considered and those approved will be fed into departmental plans to simplify bureaucracy. Ideas will receive a response within 90 days and those taken forward will be put in place by 2010.
ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers) have openly supported the launch of the Public Sector Strategy:
“ACPO welcome an initiative which is aimed at reducing bureaucracy and freeing up frontline officer's time. We also support the aim to listen to those at the sharp end.”