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Consultation on Codes of Conduct for Local Authority Members and Emplopyees

 

 

Meeting: 09/12/2008 - Standards (This Committee has now been combined with Audit and Governance and no longer meets) (Item 5)

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To seek the Standards Committee’s views on proposed changes to the Members’ Code of Conduct and comments on the proposed Employee Code of Conduct.

 

(Report attached)

Minutes:

The Head of Legal, Democratic & Property in her role as Monitoring Officer informed Members that the Department for Communities and Local Government was seeking comments on the proposed changes to the Members’ Code of Conduct and also comments on the proposed Employee Code of Conduct.

 

Members discussed each question in Appendix 1 individually and were in agreement with all comments except for those outlined below.

 

RESOLVED that

 

1)     the report be noted;

2)     the responses to specific questions at Appendix 1 be endorsed with the following suggested amendments:

 

1.2           that paragraph 2 be amended to include Police Cautions;

1.3           that ‘deliberately’ should be added to the quote in paragraph 1;

1.6      that members felt it was not appropriate for them to make any comment on the Employee Code of Conduct.