Regulatory
A Regulatory body’s role is to ‘police’ a frame work of rules which govern particular industry sectors and areas of public life. The role of a regulator is firstly to steer those organisations that fall under their authority towards complying with regulatory frame works, and secondly to act as an enforcement agent if severe breaches of these regulations occur.
UK regulatory bodies are established by the government as a means of monitoring and enforcing the behaviour of public and private organisations as measured against a frame work of rules. Their primary role is to facilitate compliance to these rules by assisting stake holder organisations with their compliance activities. They do, however, possess powers to issue sanctions when stake holder organisations are seen to have persistently breached rules and/or ignored assistance from the regulator.
They tend to be responsible for the regulation of a single industry sector such as the financial services, TV advertising and energy distribution.
As a regulator’s remit is both to facilitate compliance and ‘police’ breaches of rules, there are a broad range of job types available. Below are typical roles at a few existing UK regulatory bodies. Click on them to read more:
