Presentation by the Monitoring Officer.
Minutes:
The Committee received a presentation from the Deputy Monitoring Officer which detailed the changes to the Standards regime in accordance with the Localism Act 2011 (for copy of slides see file of Minutes).
Following the presentation Members discussed the changes to the procedure through which Code of Conduct complaints would now be handled and the Deputy Monitoring Officer advised that Councillors Batson and Cooke had very recently been selected as the 2 co-optees from Parish and Town Councillors.