On 16 October, the UK government announced it had withdrawn the draft Companies (Strategic Report and Directors’ Report) (Amendment) Regulations 2023, which were laid in Parliament on 19 July.

The Chartered Governance Institute, UK & Ireland, has responded to the government’s announcement today that it has withdrawn the draft Companies (Strategic Report and Directors’ Report) (Amendment) Regulations 2023, which were laid in Parliament on 19 July and were due to be debated in Parliament this month.

Organisations are still failing to provide enough support to staff in terms of their mental health according to a poll out today from The Chartered Governance Institute and governance recruitment specialist The Core Partnership. Fewer than half (45%) of respondents to the poll believe that their organisation does enough to support staff’s mental health, with over a quarter (26%) stating that their organisation does not do enough. A similar poll a year ago found parallel results: 49% of respondents believed that their organisation did enough to support employees’ mental well-being and 31% believed that their organisation did not.

June is Pride Month. And whilst to many, it’s just an opportunity for shops and businesses to use rainbows to make themselves look more appealing, it’s actually much more important than just a commercial branding exercise.

In a new report out yesterday from The Chartered Governance UK & Ireland and the Centre for Synchronous Leadership (CSL), we explore how decision-making has changed in the past year, get more concrete in exploring the dividend of engaging in mindful practices and highlight specific trends and areas of concern that warrant attention for the year ahead.

Tobias is a director at Elemental, the CGIUKI’s service provider of the year 2021. He is dual-qualified, having trained and qualified as a solicitor at Linklaters, a Magic Circle law firm, before becoming a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute.

To investigate or not to investigate? That is the question.

On 8 July 2021, The Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland responded to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) consultation on 'Restoring trust in audit and corporate governance'.

A new report out today from The Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland and the Centre for Synchronous Leadership (CSL) has highlighted the dangers of business leaders having blind spots and puts forward a convincing case for businesses to get on the front foot with emerging trends and issues. It provides a deep understanding of the systemic issues that are causing business leaders to be insular, or ‘Bubble Bound’ to coin a phrase used in the report, and uses quantitative data to show the benefit of being more open to difference.