Service 03 · The instrument library

Policy drafting — the instrument library

38 policy instruments across governance, ethics, finance, information, people and operations: what each does, how it is drafted, and the defect that most often makes it unenforceable.

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The library

38 instruments, across 6 groups.

What each instrument does, how it is drafted, and the defect that most often makes it unenforceable.

Group 01 · 6 instruments

Board and governance policies

The instruments that decide who may decide. They are drafted from the enabling instrument outwards — the Act, then the MOI or constitution, then the board’s own resolutions — never from a template inwards.

Open the group Group 02 · 5 instruments

Ethics, conduct and integrity policies

The documents an organisation is judged by when something has gone wrong — and which are worth less than nothing if they describe a system that does not exist.

Open the group Group 03 · 6 instruments

Finance, procurement and asset policies

Where the policy is the control. In the public sector these are prescribed rather than optional, and the drafting question is compliance before preference.

Open the group Group 04 · 6 instruments

Information, data and records policies

The suite the Information Regulator asks for — and which, for an organisation that sells compliance, is the first thing a sceptical buyer checks.

Open the group Group 05 · 9 instruments

People and workplace policies

Employment policies are read twice: once by the employee, and once by a commissioner deciding whether the employer followed its own rules.

Open the group Group 06 · 6 instruments

Risk, compliance and operational policies

The policies that decide whether the organisation notices a problem early enough to do something about it.

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Tools and documents for this service

Use these before you call. They will tell you whether you have a problem, and roughly how large it is, without anyone having to sell you anything.

Policy testTest one policy at a time — eight questionsOpen DownloadThe whole library as a PDFOpen InsightPolicies that survive being read against youOpen

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