News - Jun 2011

The Red Tape Challenge

Good regulation is a good thing. It protects consumers, employees and the environment, it helps build a more fair society and can even save lives. But over the years, regulations – and the inspections and bureaucracy that go with them – have piled up and up. This has hurt business, doing real damage to our economy. And it’s done harm to our society too. When people are confronted by a raft of regulations whenever they try to volunteer or play a bigger part in their neighbourhood, they begin to think they shouldn’t bother.

The Red Tape Challenge website is for you to say which regulations are working and which are not; what should be scrapped, what should be saved and what should be simplified.

13 Jun 2011