Issue - meetings

Since the last meeting the Committee has held a joint meeting with Kensington and Chelsea Standards Committee and has been represented at both the Annual North West London Networking Seminar at Brent and at a pan-London meeting of Standards Committee Members at the GLA’s City Hall offices.

Joint Meeting

The joint meeting was held on 3 December and a note of the meeting is attached.

Brent Networking Seminar

This was held on 12 January and was attended by  Christopher Troke; Kayode Adewumi, Head of Councillors’ Services; and David Bays, Committee Co-ordinator.  The main speaker was Peter Keith-Lucas who gave a presentation on the various stages of the complaints process, answering questions in the light of experience to date.  A copy of hs power point presentation slides is available together with two other papers circulated at the event: a Monitoring Officer’s Protocol and a paper outlining  suggested criteria for Assessment Sub-Committees.

GLA Seminar

This was held on  11 February and was attended by Steven Moussavi, the Chairman; and David Bays, Committee Co-ordinator. A report of the seminar to the GLA’s Standards Committee together with a Summary of points raised at the Seminar are attached for information. Members’ attention is drawn to the conclusions and Feedback paragraphs in the Summary paper..

The Committee considered that the joint meeting with Kensington & Chelsea had been successful.  The success was due to the keynote speaker Bob Chilton, Chairman of Standards for England.  The Committee noted that the feedback report on the issues discussed at the London Standards Committee Network event held at the GLA was quite interesting.  An unresolved question was whether the number of complaints received was a reflection of the level of publicity and transparency of the process or high level of ethical standards.