Issue - meetings

Issue - meetings

Code of Conduct Matters

Meeting: 29/03/2018 - GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE (Item 42)

42 Report on the Arrangements for Ethical Standards pdf icon PDF 132 KB

 

To consider matters relating to the Council’s ethical governance arrangements.

 

(Note: Appendix C to the report is to follow).

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

 

The Committee considered a report that provided a summary of the Council’s ethical governance and arrangements since October 2017.

 

Member training took place in January 2018 on the Code of Conduct and was well attended.  Any queries that were raised at this training session would be followed up and a response circulated to Members.

 

Full Council had approved the amendment to the Constitution in relation to complaints being made under the Councillor Code of Conduct being published.  The Committee confirmed that all complaints received should be published on the website.

 

RESOLVED

 

1.            that the Council had complied with its obligations in respect of ethical standards under the Localism Act 2011 for the 6 months since March 2017; and

 

2.            that ‘no case to answer’ complaints would be published anonymously.