Issue - meetings
Standards Advisory Committee - Membership, Terms of Reference and Programme of Meetings 2012 -13
Meeting: 14/07/2015 - Standards Advisory Committee (Item 6)
6 Code of Conduct for Members - Complaints and Investigation Monitoring PDF 105 KB
To note the monitoring information contained in the report.
Minutes:
Meic Sullivan Gould, the Interim Monitoring Officer introduced the report. The Committee noted that the four outstanding complaints had been determined. The determinations had been delayed as attempts to convene a meeting of the Investigation and Disciplinary Sub-Committee since September 2014 had failed on a number of occasions due to difficulties in securing dates acceptable to nominated Members of the Investigation & Disciplinary Sub-Committee on a number of occasions. More recently it had not possible to convene a meeting of the Investigation & Disciplinary Sub-Committee during the pre - election period for the general election in May 2015 and the subsequent Tower Hamlets mayoral and ward elections in June 2015.
The Committee noted that a meeting of the Investigation & Disciplinary Sub-Committee had finally been convened on 23 June 2015 and had considered the four outstanding complaints. The Sub-Committee had made the following decisions:
· Complaint Reference IDSC/05/2013 - that in light of the finding of the independent investigator, the complaint be closed.
· Complaint Reference IDSC/08/2013 - that in light of the finding of the independent investigator, the complaint be closed.
· Complaint Reference IDSC/09/2013 - that in light of the finding of the independent investigator, that there was no evidence of a failure to comply with the Code of Conduct for Members, the complaint be closed.
· Complaint Reference ASC/01/2012 - that the complaint be not referred for hearing.
The Chair thanked all Members who had availed themselves in sitting on the IDSC in June 2015 and assisted in bringing the much delayed set of complaint cases to conclusion.
Comments from Members included the request that the committee process would be streamlined/improved to avoid delays in setting up appropriate sub-committees to determine complaints submitted to the Standards Advisory Committee in the future.
Action By: Meic Sullivan-Gould, the Interim Monitoring Officer
RESOLVED:
That the report be noted.