Issue - meetings

To receive a verbal update from the Chief Officer (Governance)

That the Committee supported the following proposals:

(a)       That meetings of the Standard Forum be held every 6 months;

(b)       That the host Monitoring Officer be the only Monitoring Officer required to  attend a meeting of the Forum, and

(c)        That the local Chair takes the Chair for the meeting.

The Monitoring Officer provided a verbal update on the Standards Forum.  He reported that at the meeting of the Forum held in June 2015, discussion had taken place around how often the Forum should meet and the protocols around how it would operate in the future.  He explained that it was proposed that meetings of the Forum would be held twice a year, that the host Monitoring Officer should be the only Monitoring Officer to attend the meeting to dispense with the need for all 6 Monitoring Officers to attend each meeting, and that the local Chair would Chair the meeting.  

                        During discussion the Monitoring Officer responded to the questions raised around the nature of the work undertaken by the Forum.  The Monitoring Officer explained that the remit of the Forum was to share good practice and experience, however, it was not a decision making body. 

            RESOLVED:

That the Committee supported the following proposals:

(a)       That meetings of the Standard Forum be held every 6 months;

(b)       That the host Monitoring Officer be the only Monitoring Officer required to  attend a meeting of the Forum, and

(c)        That the local Chair takes the Chair for the meeting.