Issue - meetings
Overview of Ethical Complaints
Meeting: 12/11/2018 - Standards Committee (Item 34)
34 Overview of Ethical Complaints 
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That the Committee notes the number and type
of complaints.
Additional documents:
Decision:
That the number and type of complaints be noted.
Minutes:
The Monitoring Officer introduced the report which provided a running total of the ethical complaints alleging a breach of the code that had been submitted to the Public Service Ombudsman for Wales. He provided background information on how the register of complaints was compiled and reported that there had been further complaints submitted in respect of a single Town Council since the last report. One complaint had been made by a member of the public which the Ombudsman had decided to investigate.
The Monitoring Officer reported on the list of complaints received during 2016/17 and 2017/18. During discussion the Monitoring Officer commented that few complaints developed to investigation and a minority of those progressed to a hearing.
RESOLVED:
That the number and type of complaints be noted.