Issue - meetings
National Forum for Standards Committee Chairs
Meeting: 10/01/2022 - Standards Committee (Item 37)
37 National Forum for Standards Committee Chairs 
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To consider whether there should be a national
forum for Standards Committee Chairs of a type similar to the North
and Mid Wales Forum for Independent Members
Additional documents:
Decision:
That the creation of an all Wales Forum for Standards Committee Chairs be supported.
Minutes:
The Monitoring Officer presented the report and explained that the Penn Report on the Review of the Ethical Regime in Wales commented on the variety of practices across Wales in how Standards Committees discharged their duties.
Richard Penn commented positively on the work of the forum for Chairs of Standards Committee in North and Mid Wales and recommended that a national forum for the Chairs of Standards Committees should be established, modelled on that forum.
Following the previous meeting, the Monitoring Officer had consulted other Councils on whether they would wish to support the creation of a national forum and the Monitoring Officers in those authorities were consulting with their Standards Committee on the issue.
There were a number of things to consider with the creation of such a national forum and they were outlined in the report but none appeared unsurmountable.
It was proposed by Mark Morgan and seconded by Councillor Arnold Woolley that the Committee support the creation of an All Wales Forum for Standards Committee Chairs.
RESOLVED:
That the creation of an all Wales Forum for Standards Committee Chairs be supported.