Agenda

Standards Committee - Wednesday, 8 June 2011 10.00 a.m., CANCELLED

Venue: Swansley Room A, Ground Floor. View directions

Contact: Holly Adams  03450 450 500

Note: Cancelled: due to resignation of a co-opted member, the Committee is no longer quorate 

Items
No. Item

Procedural Items

1.

Election of Chairman of the Standards Committee 2011/12

2.

Appointment of Vice-Chairman of the Standards Committee 2011/12

3.

Apologies

To receive apologies for absence from committee members. 

4.

Declarations of Interest

5.

Minutes of Previous Meeting pdf icon PDF 40 KB

To authorise the Chairman to sign the Minutes of the meeting held on 9 March 2011 as a correct record.

6.

Chairman's Address

Decision Items

7.

2011/12 Appointments to Standards Committee Panels Established under the Standards Committee (England) Regulations 2008 pdf icon PDF 30 KB

Additional documents:

8.

BARRINGTON Parish Council: Request for a Dispensation pdf icon PDF 33 KB

Additional documents:

9.

FOXTON Parish Council: Requests for Dispensations pdf icon PDF 37 KB

Information Item

10.

Standards Committee Budget 2010/11 pdf icon PDF 21 KB

To note. 

Standing Items

11.

Updates from Assessment and Review Panels pdf icon PDF 10 KB

To note. 

12.

Advice to, and training of, District and Parish Council Members in relation to the Members' Code

Document

Weekly Bulletin / E-mail

Standards Committee Newsletter Spring 2011

16 March 2011

Future of Standards Survey

16 March 2011, 11 May 2011

Consultation on change of number of Parish Council members on Standards Committee in light of a resignation

4 April 2011

 

To note the above.

13.

Feedback from Future of Standards Working Group pdf icon PDF 32 KB

To receive notes of the 16 May 2011 Future of Standards Working Group meeting and the preliminary survey responses from district and parish councillors, parish clerks and Council officers are attached for information.  The survey closing date is Friday 10 June 2011 and any further responses will be reported to the Future of Standards Working Group to inform their work programme.

Additional documents:

14.

Local Investigations, Hearings and References made to Standards for England pdf icon PDF 21 KB

To note.

15.

Operation of National Codes of Conduct and other statutory functions of the Monitoring Officer

To note that the only known change to the draft version of the Localism Bill where it relates to standards is that Councils will be obliged to publicise details of their standards arrangements with regards to adopting a code and local framework.

16.

Operation of the Council's "whistle-blowing" policy

Nothing to report.

17.

Date of Next Meeting

Wednesday 14 September 2011 at 10 am.