Issue - meetings

To inform the Committee of the latest publications of the Public Services Ombudsman’s Code of Conduct Casebook.

That having reviewed the cases summarised in  issue 24 of the Casebook the Committee  was satisfied that no action needed to be taken at Flintshire County Council to avoid similar complaints. 

The Deputy Monitoring Officer presented the report.  He explained that the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales (PSOW) summarised the complaints he had investigated on a quarterly basis in the Code of Conduct Casebook.  In reference to (c) and (d) findings, the Casebook only contained the summaries of those cases for which the hearings by the Standards Committee or Adjudication Panel for Wales (APW) had been concluded and the outcome of the hearing was known. 

The Deputy Monitoring Officer explained that this edition covered January to December 2020 and highlighted that 13 complaints had been investigated by the PSOW during this time.  The Deputy Monitoring Officer advised that 10 were findings of no action necessary; 2 were referred to the relevant Monitoring Officer for consideration by their Standards Committee, and 1 was referred to the APW.

The Deputy Monitoring Officer responded to a query by Gill Murgatroyd in respect of the PSOW findings on a complaint investigated concerning a Former Member of  Laleston Community Council.

The recommendation  was moved by Councillor Paul Johnson and seconded by Councillor Arnold Woolley. 

RESOLVED:

That having reviewed the cases summarised in  issue 24 of the Casebook the Committee  was satisfied that no action needed to be taken at Flintshire County Council to avoid similar complaints.