Agenda item

The Committee considered a report of the Head of Legal and Democratic Services which presented proposals for the revision of the Council’s Local Assessment Procedure for Code of Conduct complaints (for copy see file of Minutes).

The proposed changes to the Procedure were set out in the report for Members’ consideration.

Members discussed the proposed amendments and a number of questions were asked about the assessment criteria detailed in Appendix 3. David Taylor suggested that any additional criteria suggested by Members could be considered in a further report to the Committee.

A question was also asked about the cost per individual complaint in terms of Officer time, given the current financial climate. David Taylor confirmed that a record of time spent on each individual complaint by Legal Officers could be produced.

Resolved:

That the proposed revisions to the Local Assessment Procedure be agreed and a further report be considered by the Committee if there were any additional assessment criteria suggested by Members.