Most coaches favour internal rather than external regulation of the profession, suggests a straw poll at an Association for Coaching (AC) debate on 16 November. The ‘Regulation Debate’ was held because the government recently moved to regulate counselling and psychotherapy, and some believe the spotlight will now fall on coaching. Coaches heard from panellists including Alison Whybrow, former chair of the British Psychological Society’s (BPS) Special Group in Coaching Psychology; David Lane, research director of the International Centre for the Study of Coaching at Middlesex University;...