Update to follow.

Jill Bayley, Head of Legal Safeguarding and Deputy Monitoring Officer, introduced the report on progress in relation to the review of the effectiveness of the Standards Advisory Committee.

She explained this was a brief update highlighting a new survey that had been sent to Members asking for their views on the effectiveness of the committee. There had been extremely limited responses to date. There were no significant comments to take forward. This would at least suggest that there wasn’t a high level of dissatisfaction with the work of the Committee.

The Chair commented that Members were very busy and if they didn’t have strong concerns they may not respond. Councillor Rabina Khan noted that at Council she had heard positive comments to the work of the Committee and that personally she had found being on the committee to be a very valuable experience. When the new Code of Conduct had recently been presented to Council there had also been no negative comments on the work of the Committee.

Finally, the Chair noted that it was important to make sure the work of the Committee was signposted during the Member Induction programme.

RESOLVED

1.    That the report be noted.