"Had we not passed the law to protect children's privacy, it's doubtful that there would be effective self-regulation".
In the interim, we must finish making our charter workable, so it will meaningfully deliver independent and effective self-regulation.
Well, as I keep on repeating the mantra that I believe in effective self-regulation then I'm happy to play a part in making it work in future.
The law set up a long-overdue system of regulating the accounting industry, which had proved time and again that it was incapable of effective self-regulation.
She appeared to acknowledge some of their concerns - about effective self-regulation, and the possibility of government oversight - when she announced a review of the commission last week.
There was broad cross-party consensus on the direction in which the industry needs to reform — on the need for effective self-regulation, transparency and a uniformly accepted set of ethical guidelines.
It was seized on by opponents of self-regulation - although the Guardian argued that the issue was not self-regulation itself, but effective self-regulation - and also prompted the PCC to reopen an earlier investigation into accusations of malpractice at the Sunday title.
Lord Justice Leveson said that he had no intention of creating a framework that provided more work for lawyers (the irony of which, as he looked out on the serried ranks of legal representatives, will not have been lost) so we can assume that his mind is inclined towards more effective self-regulation.
But since then Cameron has been under sustained pressure from the newspaper industry, and from cabinet colleagues, to oppose any state involvement in media regulation, unless the industry patently failed to embrace Leveson's call for robust, swift and effective self-regulation.
The consultation appears so skewed to serve the interests of the big newspaper corporations that it obscures the fundamental point of the Leveson reforms: to bring news publishers into a system of independent, effective self-regulation that will encourage high ethical standards, while protecting the public from the consequences of unethical behaviour.
Implications for effective self-regulation by test-anxious students are discussed.
