Regulation
UKCAE is working with the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) who will formally recognise the Pathway as a process that can be used for certification purposes.
"The United Kingdom Accreditation Service is the sole national accreditation body recognised by the government to assess, against international agreed standards, organisations that provide certification, testing, inspection and calibration services."
"[Authorisation] by UKAS demonstrates the competence, impartiality and performance capability of these evaluators" [www.ukas.com]
UKAS cannot accredit compliance with legislation, it can however, assess the suitability of evaluation schemes as part of its accreditation process of evaluators and thereby provide an indirect recognition of these schemes.
UKAS has established a project that will develop a process leading to direct assessment or recognition of schemes used for evaluation purposes. The result will be an assessment of the UKCAE Pathway development process, leading to a recognition of the Pathway, subject to meeting the criteria.
A Framework for Fairness
The Government Green Paper also seeks: "suggestions for ways in which good equality practice could be encouraged and embedded in the private sector, without introducing additional legislation specifically aimed at private sector business" (Chapter 6: 6.2(a,b); 6.7 - 6.12).