Issue - meetings

To consider the Council’s Annual Standards Report and activity within its Standards framework from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020.

The Committee received the Standards Annual Report which would advise Council of the activity within its Standards framework from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020.

There had been seven code of conduct complaints, four were Borough Councillor complaints, three were Town/Parish Councillor Complaints. Two of the Parish complaints were upheld. None had been upheld for the Borough complaints.

The report had been superseded by the model code of conduct and the report would be amended to reflect this. The time scale had slipped for this with the final version originally due to be unveiled at the LGA conference in June which would now not be the case.

The model code of conduct would be available on the LGA website and circulated to the Committee Members and Members of the Code of Conduct Working group.

The Committee noted:

       i.          The Standards outputs in 2019/20 as set out in (APPENDIX B)of the Borough Solicitors report.

      ii.          The update in respect of the work of the Local Government Association (LGA) in developing a new Model Code of Conduct further to one of the recommendations set out in the January 2019 Committee for Standards in Public Life report into Ethical Standards in Local Government