<p>Officials in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), HMCTS and Acas are working closely to ensure that early conciliation will be implemented in April 2014. We consulted on some of the operational detail of how early conciliation will work in practice earlier this year, and it is our intention to publish the regulations in early 2014, so all parties have adequate time to familiarise themselves with the changes that early conciliation will introduce, and to prepare accordingly.</p><p>BIS internal audit recently carried out a review of Acas's scenario planning work for the implementation of early conciliation and produced a favourable report.</p>