Issue - meetings

To consider the attached report.

The Council considered a report of the Strategic Director – Corporate and Policy. It was noted that CIPFA and SOLACE (the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers) had published an updated governance framework for local authorities – “Delivering Good Governance in Local Government”. This draft Local Code of Corporate Governance had been developed in response to that publication.

In relation to page 42 paragraph 4.2 Members discussed the function of effective scrutiny arrangements.

RESOLVED: That the draft Local Code of Corporate Governance be approved and included in the Constitution.

            The Committee considered a report from the Strategic Director – Corporate and Policy, requesting that the Committee review the draft Local Code of Corporate Governance and recommend it be referred to the Council for adoption and inclusion in the Council’s constitution.

            Members praised the contents of the report and Appendix 1 and were happy with the relevance of the report to the Committee. 

A query was made with regards to the Standards Committee reporting statistics and it was confirmed that an annual report on the work of the Standards Committee would be produced, which would contain this information.

Following a comment on Member training courses, it was confirmed that those who had not been able to attend courses on the Code of Conduct in 2008, would be invited to attend at further sessions.

RESOLVED:  That the Committee recommends that the Standards Committee draft Local Code of Corporate Governance be referred to the Council for adoption and inclusion in the Council’s constitution.