Lessons from meeting our EDI Standard for regulators - good practice guide

This good practice guide showcases examples from across the regulators we oversee. It highlights the range of work the regulators are undertaking to embed equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) across their regulatory functions. The report is based on examples of good practice identified through the PSA’s 2023/24 performance reviews. 

It provides short snapshots of good practice as well as more detailed case studies of how regulators have been meeting our EDI Standard (Standard 3 of the Standards of Good Regulation).

We assess the 10 statutory regulators each year against our Standards of Good Regulation. Standard 3, which was introduced in 2019, considers whether regulators understand the diversity of their stakeholders and ensure that their processes do not discriminate unfairly. For the 2023/24 reporting period, we increased our expectations of what regulators need to do to meet this Standard, introducing four outcomes.