Issue - meetings

The Committee received the report of the Director of Legal and Business Services detailing the Annual Report on Members’ Code of Conduct. 

The Committee noted and discussed the following:

·  During the previous year, there had been no substantive Member complaints requiring investigation by the Monitoring Officer.  There was one preliminary investigation which was determined not to require a full investigation under the Code.  There were no matters referred to the Committee for your determination.

·  There had been a previous report on updates to the Code itself which the Committee had agreed to maintain as the current Code of Conduct.

·  The only other area of substantive concern for the Monitoring Officer was the uptake in Member training.  Whilst training was considered to be good for those Members sitting on regulatory committees, there was work ongoing with Group Leaders and Executive Management Board to put in place a revised training programme to develop mandatory standards of training establishing minimum participation which was a key area for Governance in terms of probity and decision making for the Authority. 

RESOLVED to note the annual report for the year 2021/22.