Agenda item

7.1

The Committee received a report from the Interim Director of Legal and Governance. The Code of Conduct and Procedure was reviewed on an annal basis by the Monitoring Officer in consultation with the Independent Persons. The report set out any revisions that were recommended for the Committee to consider.

7.2

The Interim Director of Legal and Governance explained that the latest version of the Procedure for Dealing with Standards Complaints was approved by Full Council in November 2022 as part of the Monitoring Officer Protocol.

7.3

The Interim Director of Legal and Governance outlined all the recent changes to the procedure, to the Committee. It was mentioned that these could be found in red text, in the updated version of the procedure, which was distributed to Members at the start of the meeting.

7.4

Following the introduction to the report, no questions or comments were made by Members of the Committee.

7.5

RESOLVED: That the Committee (1) recommends to Full Council the adoption of the revised Procedure and that the Constitution is amended accordingly; and (2) refers the revised Procedure to the Parish and Town Councils for consideration and adoption.