Issue - meetings
Overview of Ethical Complaints
Meeting: 05/03/2018 - Standards Committee (Item 63)
63 Overview of Ethical Complaints 
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That the Committee notes the number and type
of complaints.
Additional documents:
Decision:
(a) That the number and types of complaints be noted; and
(b) That future reports provide clarity on different councils and members using numbers and letters to differentiate them without identifying.
Minutes:
The Monitoring Officer presented a report on complaints of alleged breaches of the members’ code of conduct submitted to the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales (PSOW). A total of nine complaints had been received in 2016/17 and two received in 2017/18 to date.
As the report was to be a regular feature on the Forward Work Programme, Mrs. Julia Hughes asked if it could be enhanced to indicate the Authority, source of the complaint and PSOW outcome, as a result of which the report would need to be considered in closed session.
Councillor Heesom felt that information in the report could be expanded whilst retaining it as a public document. This view was supported by Councillor Woolley.
The Monitoring Officer suggested the report could indicate Town or Community Council ‘1’, ‘2’ etc, and Member ‘a’, ‘b’, etc, to differentiate the type of council and complainant without identifying them. On being put to the vote, this was carried.
RESOLVED:
(a) That the number and types of complaints be noted; and
(b) That future reports provide clarity on different councils and members using numbers and letters to differentiate them without identifying.