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Standards Committee

Standards Committee meetings will be held on Tuesdays at 4.00pm.

15 March 2011 14 June 2011 4 October 2011 13 December 2011 13 March 2012

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Membership

The chair of the Standards Committee is Ms Valerie Bracken. The other members of the committee are:

  • Mrs Jacqueline Barnes
  • Mr David Berry
  • Councillor Anthony Milne, Mossley Town Council Representative - required under the relevant regulations
  • Councillor Val Carter, Mossley Town Council Representative - required under the relevant regulations
  • Reverend Dennis Thomas
  • Councillor Joe Kitchen, Chair of Council Business, and nominated substitute Councillor Susan Quinn 
  • Councillor John Bell, Leader of the Opposition, and nominated substitute Councillor Derek Baines

Role and Functions

The Standards Committee will have the following roles and functions:

  • promoting and maintaining high standards of conduct by Councillors, Co-opted members and church and Parent Governor Representatives;
  • assisting the Councillors and Co-opted Members and Church and Parent Governor Representatives to observe the Members' Code of Conduct;
  • advising the Council on the adoption or revision of the Members' Code of Conduct;
  • monitoring the operation of the Members' Code of Conduct;
  • advising, training or arranging to train Councillors and Co-opted Members and Church and Parent Governor Representatives on matters relating to the Members' Code of Conduct;
  • granting dispensations to Councillors and Co-opted Members and Church and Parent Governor Representatives from requirements relating to interests set out in the Members' Code of Conduct;
  • dealing with any reports from a case tribunal or interim case tribunal, and any report from the Monitoring Officer on any matter which is referred by an Ethical Standards Officer to the Monitoring Officer.
  • the exercise of points 1 to 7 above in relation to the Parish Councils wholly or mainly in its area and the members of those Parish Councils.
  • overview of the Council's policies and standards of conduct and ethics.
  • such other responsibilities as may be prescribed by law.

The Standards Committee will scrutinise Parish Council functions.

Meetings

Meetings of the Standards Committee are held in the Council Offices, Wellington Road, Ashton-under-Lyne and are open to the public, except when they are dealing with exempt information as defined in Schedule 12A to the Access to Information Rules

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Wellington Road
Ashton under Lyne
OL6 6DL
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0161 342 3028
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Page last updated: 29 September 2011