Committee on Standards in Public Life: Local government ethical standards: report
R19-15
Response position Partially accepted
Published January 2019
Response position and delivery status are recorded separately. Acceptance does not establish implementation.
Recommendation (the Committee's words)
The Local Government Transparency Code should be updated to require councils to publish annually: the number of code of conduct complaints they receive; what the complaints broadly relate to (e.g. bullying; conflict of interest); the outcome of those complaints, including if they are rejected as trivial or vexatious; and any sanctions applied.
From: Committee on Standards in Public Life, Local government ethical standards: report, January 2019
Government response
Government response (the government's words)
The government believes that this is better addressed through the sector adopting as best practice a regular pattern of annual reporting by Standard Committees of the cases and complaints handled and would encourage this as best practice by the sector.
The government does not believe that there is a requirement to prescribe to local authorities the form and content of such Standard Committee annual reports.
The government does not believe that there is a requirement to prescribe to local authorities the form and content of such Standard Committee annual reports.
From: HM Government. Source document ↗