Does anyone know what the different between statuory regulation and voluntary self regulation is?

Answer 1

Voluntary Self Regulation ideally involves an independent regulatory body which:

Maintains a register of individual practitioners
Sets educational standards and an independent accreditation system
Requires professional competence among its registrants through a programme of continuing professional development
Provides codes of conduct, ethics and practice
Has in place a complaints mechanism for members of the public
Has in place a fitness to practice procedure that is accessible to the public
Requires registrants to have adequate professional indemnity insurance
Has the capacity to regulate the whole profession
Includes lay representation on the executive council


Statutory Self Regulation provides for many of the functions of a self-regulatory system but also has the following features:

Legal Protection of title for therapists
The establishment by law of single definitive register of practitioners
Legal underpinning of disciplinary procedures and sanctions
External appointment of members of the governing council
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Answer 2

Mainly you are talking about law and conscience.
In industry, the law puts forth many regulations and self-regulation puts forth few. As a rule, if the industry is based on compassionate services like hospitals, doctors, charity organizations, they can be effective at self-regulation but if they are mainly profit driven they cannot.

Answer 3

Yes I do.Why don't you?