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Analyse and improve policies
Check your existing policies against UK law and get a redraft that fixes what it finds.
What the Section Analyser does
The Section Analyser checks your existing HR policies against current UK employment law, Acas guidance and best practice. It identifies compliance gaps, flags risks, and can rewrite the policy to fix the issues it finds.
When to use it
- Existing policies
- You have a policy that needs checking or updating against current law.
- Imported content
- You are bringing in policies from another system and want to verify compliance.
- Pre-2025 policies
- Policies written before ERA 2025 are likely to need updates for the new legal requirements.
- Annual review
- Check policies against the latest law changes as part of your regular review cycle.
Severity levels
Each finding is categorised by severity to help you decide what to fix first.
| Severity | Action | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | Fix immediately | Serious legal non-compliance that could result in tribunal claims or regulatory action. Missing statutory requirements, unlawful provisions. |
| High | Priority | Acas Code non-compliance (risks a 25% tribunal uplift) or significant legal gaps that increase exposure. |
| Medium | Recommended | Best practice gaps, unclear wording, or areas where improved clarity would reduce the risk of disputes. |
| Low | Minor | Minor improvements, formatting suggestions, or clarifications that would improve the policy but are not urgent. |
| Enhancement | Optional | Additional context or modern best practice that goes beyond the legal requirements. |
Step by step
- 1
Paste your policy
Copy your existing policy content and paste it into the text area. The analysis works best with complete policies, but can also handle partial content.
For the best results
- Include the policy title or heading
- Paste the full policy content if possible
- Keep any section numbers or structure
- Remove any confidential company-specific information if you prefer
- 2
Run the analysis
Click Analyse policy. Your content is checked against:
- UK employment law
- ERA, Equality Act, WTR and other statutes
- Acas Code
- Codes of Practice and guidance
- Best practice
- CIPD and modern HR standards
- 3
Review the findings
The analysis shows:
- Detected policy type
- What kind of policy it is (for example "Disciplinary Procedure")
- Overall risk rating
- A summary rating (Critical, High, Medium, Low) based on the most serious findings
- Individual findings
- Each issue with its severity, what is wrong, the legal authority, and a recommendation
- Missing elements
- Required elements that should be in this policy type but are missing
- Upcoming changes
- Law changes still to come (such as the ERA 2025 provisions arriving in October 2026 and January 2027) that will affect this policy
- 4
Choose what to fix
Click Redraft with AI and select which severity levels to address: Critical, High, Medium, Low or Enhancement.
- 5
Review the redraft
Regulyn generates an improved version of your policy. You will see:
- Redrafted content
- The improved policy text, ready to review and edit
- Change log
- Every change made, why it was made, and the legal authority behind it
- Notes for review
- Items needing your attention, such as company-specific decisions and contact details
- 6
Edit if needed
Click Edit to make any adjustments:
- Add company-specific details
- Adjust wording to match your style
- Address the "Notes for review" items
- Keep any original content you prefer
- 7
Save to your handbook
Choose how to save the improved policy:
- Replace existing
- Update an existing policy in your handbook with the new version
- Create new
- Add it as a new policy if it does not exist in your handbook yet
- Weave or merge
- Combine the new content with an existing policy. Weave keeps the best of both and resolves conflicts automatically.
How the analysis works
The Section Analyser does more than match keywords.
- Contextual understanding
- It identifies the policy type and checks it against the specific legal requirements for that type. A disciplinary policy has different requirements from a leave policy.
- Legal citations
- Every finding includes the specific law, regulation or guidance it is based on, so you know why something needs changing.
- Future-aware
- It flags law changes still to come (such as the October 2026 and January 2027 ERA 2025 provisions) that will affect your policy, even if it is currently compliant.
- Preserves your content
- The redraft keeps what is already good and only changes what needs fixing. It will not rewrite your entire policy unnecessarily.
Tips for the best results
- 1
Paste complete policies
The more content you provide, the better the analysis. Include headings and the full text.
- 2
Read the change log carefully
The change log explains every modification. Understand why changes were made before accepting them.
- 3
Fix Critical and High first
These are legal compliance issues. Medium and below are improvements, not requirements.
- 4
Use Weave for complex merges
If you have good existing content and want to combine it with the improvements, the Weave option merges both versions.
- 5
Re-analyse after major changes
If you make significant edits, run the analysis again to verify compliance.
Section Analyser or Policy Studio?
| Section Analyser | Policy Studio |
|---|---|
| Check existing policies | Generate new policies from scratch |
| Get compliance findings | No existing content required |
| Redrafts preserve good content | Fill compliance gaps quickly |
| See exactly what changed and why | Complete policy in one step |
Frequently asked questions
How does Regulyn analyse HR policies?
What types of policy issues does Regulyn detect?
Can Regulyn automatically fix policy issues?
How accurate is Regulyn's policy analysis?
What does the compliance score mean?
Related reading
- Understanding compliance scores
How scoring works
- Generate HR policies
Drafting and redrafting policies
- Legal change alerts
How Regulyn flags the policies a law change affects
- The Acas Code of Practice
What the Code requires of disciplinary and grievance procedures
- ERA 2025 in plain English
What is in force, what is coming and what your handbook needs to say
- Free handbook compliance check
Every gap ranked by risk, with the law cited
- Free handbook risk check
See which law changes your handbook has missed. No sign-up
- ERA 2025: what you need to change
The handbook changes the Act calls for
- How Regulyn works
From the handbook you have to one you can publish, in four steps
- Browse all guides
Step-by-step guides to every part of Regulyn
Start analysing
Paste your content into the Section Analyser and see how it measures up against UK law.