Issue - meetings
Draft Standards Advisory Committee Annual Report
Meeting: 22/04/2021 - Standards Advisory Committee (Item 3)
3 Draft Standards Advisory Committee Annual Report PDF 310 KB
Additional documents:
- Appendix. 1 for Draft Standards Advisory Committee Annual Report, item 3 PDF 376 KB
- Webcast for Draft Standards Advisory Committee Annual Report
Minutes:
Janet Fasan, Director of Legal and Interim Monitoring Officer, introduced the report setting out the draft Annual Report to Council. She explained that the purpose of the report was to set out the activity of the Committee and those issues it wished to highlight to Council and it would be useful at this stage to understand those areas the Committee would like to focus on in that presentation to Council.
The Committee discussed the report and made a number of comments including:
· How we could demonstrate the impact of the Committee, for example comparing statistics from previous years and also the levels of awareness of Members. This could possibly be through a yearly survey of Members.
· It would be useful to look at Members’ understanding of the sorts of complaints that should be submitted through the Code of Conduct process.
· Officers agreed to talk to the Whip on the most appropriate way of canvassing Members for their view of the Committee and its impact.
· It would be useful to look at how to discourage disingenuous comments from one Member to another, for example against Members sitting on SEV Committee meetings. It was also important to make sure that Members understood the processes that the Council were operating.
· The mandatory ethics and probity training was important in spreading the knowledge of the Standards processes.
The Committee were encouraged to submit any further comments to officers for help in updating the draft of the report, and it was:
RESOLVED
1. That the report be noted and that the draft annual report be further updated and presented to the next Standards Advisory Committee for sign-off.