Finding the right touch: extending the right-touch regulation approach to the accreditation of voluntary registers.
What is ‘right-touch regulation’? In this article we explain why the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (the Authority) has focussed much of its policy work in recent times on seeking an answer to this question, and why it wants to know. We explain why the Authority's predec...
| Published in: | British Journal of Guidance & Counselling Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 14 - 24 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2013
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