Agenda item

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Legal and Democratic Services and Monitoring Officer which provided an update on any developments of the Local Government Association’s Debate Not Hate campaign, which aimed to raise public awareness of the role of Councillors in their communities, encourage healthy debate and improve the responses and support for local politicians facing abuse and intimidation.

The report also sets out a proposed Zero-Tolerance Approach to Abuse Policy following a request from the Standards Committee in September 2023 (for copy of report, see file of minutes).

Resolved: (i) That the report be noted.

(ii) That the Director of Legal and Democratic Services sends all Members the information to the Local Government Association’s webinar on 20 June 2024 and the Local Government Association’s Digital Citizenship tools.