Committee on Standards in Public Life: Getting the balance right: Implementing standards of conduc…
R10-35
Published January 2005
Response position and delivery status are recorded separately. Acceptance does not establish implementation.
Recommendation (the Committee's words)
The boards of all public bodies should commit themselves to the adoption and use of the Audit Commission’s self-assessment tool, Changing Organisational Culture Audit, which is especially designed to help embed a good conduct culture.
From: Committee on Standards in Public Life, Getting the balance right: Implementing standards of conduct in public life, January 2005
Government response
Government response (the government's words)
The Government welcomes this tool as a contribution to improving standards of good governance in a wide variety of public service organisations, but would not, however, wish to make its use mandatory. The Government also provides guidance on good governance to central government departments and non-departmental public bodies, and will consider the best way of taking the Audit Commission’s self-assessment tool into account when reviewing these guidance needs. But we believe public bodies will themselves be best placed to consider exactly what approach fits their particular needs.
From: HM Government. Source document ↗