Issue - meetings

[To undertake a review the Council's Confidential Reporting Code.]

In accordance with the requirements set out in the Council's Articles of Constitution, the Committee reviewed, for the first time, the Confidential Reporting Code.

Members noted that, whilst it was the role of the Standards Committee to monitor and review the Code, paragraph 7.1 of the Code anticipated that the operation of the Code should be reported to the Audit Board.  Members were, therefore, asked to consider making a recommendation to the Council that the Articles of Constitution be revised to transfer responsibility for monitoring and reviewing the Code to the Audit Board.

RECOMMENDED that the Articles of Constitution be amended to transfer responsibility for reviewing and monitoring the Confidential Reporting Code to the Audit Board.