Issue - meetings

Annual Report – Standards of Conduct

Meeting: 06/02/2019 - Standards and Audit Committee (Item 59)

59 Annual Report – Standards Of Conduct

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Monitoring Officer presented a report to provide members with an overview of the complaints made about Councillors and the Standards system since February 2018. The report also included a list of best practice.

 

It was noted that two complaints had been made in the past year.  A cumulative analysis of complaints was attached at Appendix A to the officer’s report.

 

Following the hearing in January 2019 it is recommended that the procedure used in that hearing and attached at Appendix B is adopted for any future hearings.

 

* RESOLVED –

 

1. That the report be noted.

 

2. That the hearing procedure in Appendix B to this report be adopted.

 

3. That the report on Ethical Standards by the Committee on Standards in Public Life be noted, and that a report considering its recommendations be submitted to the next meeting of this committee