Issue - meetings
Constitutional Changes
Meeting: 07/07/2021 - Audit and Governance (Hearing) Sub-Committee (Item 40)
40 Hearing Sub-Committee Terms of Reference and Dorset Council Member Complaint Process PDF 94 KB
To note the Sub-Committee’s terms of reference:-
Audit and
Governance (Hearing) Sub-Committees for the consideration of Code of Conduct
Issues
(a)
The Audit and Governance Committee shall
arrange that, to the extent it is called upon to determine any allegation
relating to a Member Code of Code (including that of a Town Council or a Parish
Council), the determination shall be made by a Sub-Committee of the Audit and
Governance Committee. An Audit and
Governance Sub-Committee with such responsibility may include non-Members. An Audit and Governance Sub-Committee that
has non-Members forming part of it shall not have any power relating to the
regulation and/or control of the finances of the Council.
(b)
Substitutes may only be appointed to an
Audit and Governance Sub-Committee from the membership of the Audit and
Governance Committee. There shall be no
power to appoint non Member substitutes.
To note the Dorset Council Member Complaint Process (attached).
Minutes:
The Sub-committee noted the Terms of Reference and the process for complaints.
Meeting: 15/04/2021 - Dorset Council (Item 71)
71 Councillor Code of Conduct Arrangements PDF 45 KB
To consider a recommendation from the Audit & Governance Committee.
Additional documents:
- Councillor Code of Conduct Arrangements - Report, 22/02/2021 Dorset Council - Audit and Governance Committee, item 71 PDF 83 KB
- Appendix 1 Member Code of Conduct - final, 22/02/2021 Dorset Council - Audit and Governance Committee, item 71 PDF 148 KB
- Appendix 2 LGA Model Code of Conduct 2020 FINAL, 22/02/2021 Dorset Council - Audit and Governance Committee, item 71 PDF 334 KB
- Appendix 3 Member Complaint Process, 22/02/2021 Dorset Council - Audit and Governance Committee, item 71 PDF 80 KB
- Appendix 4 New draft complaint process GE v3.docx JM amended GE, 22/02/2021 Dorset Council - Audit and Governance Committee, item 71 PDF 161 KB
Minutes:
The
Chairman of the Audit & Governance Committee set out the recommendations
from the Audit and Governance Committee.
Proposed:
Cllr Matt Hall
Seconded:
Cllr Clare Sutton
Decision:
1. To adopt the Local
Government Association Model Councillor Code of Conduct including those
provisions of the Model Code relating to other registrable interests.
2. That Dorset’s Town and
Parish Councils be invited to consider adopting the LGA Model Code.
3. To adopt the proposed new
arrangements for dealing with Code of Conduct complaints against Councillors.
Reason for
Decision:
To support
councillors in maintaining high standards of conduct and to ensure a
proportionate approach to the assessment and hearing of complaints against
councillors.
Meeting: 22/02/2021 - Audit and Governance Committee (Item 58)
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To consider a report by Jonathan Mair, Corporate Director, Legal & Democratic.
Additional documents:
- Appendix 1 Member Code of Conduct - final, item 58 PDF 148 KB
- Appendix 2 LGA Model Code of Conduct 2020 FINAL, item 58 PDF 334 KB
- Appendix 3 Member Complaint Process, item 58 PDF 80 KB
- Appendix 4 New draft complaint process GE v3.docx JM amended GE, item 58 PDF 161 KB
Minutes:
Jonathan Mair, Corporate Director of Legal & Democratic presented a report on proposals to adopt the new Local Government Association Model Councillor Code of Conduct and new arrangements for dealing with Code of Conduct complaints against councillors. The committee was supportive of all of the recommendations and the Corporate Director agreed to look at the most suitable meeting date for submitting the annual monitoring report to the committee as there was no scheduled meeting in May.
Recommendation to Full Council
1. That the Local Government Association Model Councillor Code of Conduct including those provisions of the Model Code relating to other registrable interests be adopted;
2. That Dorset’s Town and Parish Councils be invited to consider adopting the LGA Model Code;
3. That the proposed new arrangements for dealing with Code of Conduct complaints against councillors be adopted.
Decision
That the committee be updated at each of its meetings about code of conduct
Complaints received and that an annual monitoring report should be
presented to the committee each year.