The Legal Services Board is consulting on a draft statement of policy on “Encouraging a diverse legal profession.” The draft statement contains a series of outcomes and expectations for legal services regulators to pursue in support of equality and diversity across the profession.
Outcome 1: Regulators take strategic, evidence-based and collaborative actions to encourage a diverse legal profession.
Outcome 2: Regulators take effective steps to ensure regulatory approaches, processes and decision-making support equality and fairness and do not undermine efforts to encourage a diverse profession.
Outcome 3: Regulators support fair, flexible, and accessible pathways into, within and back into the professions that encourage a diverse legal profession.
Outcome 4: Regulators ensure their frameworks effectively support authorised persons to uphold professional conduct, behaviours, and competencies that encourage a diverse legal profession.
ICAEW will be submitting a response and the LSB welcomes wider responses from the profession.
Read and respond to the consultation (deadline 2pm, 2 March 2026).