STANDARDS
AND CONSTITUTIONAL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
The Standards and
Constitutional Oversight Committee’s functions and delegated
powers are set out in Article 9, Part 2. The terms of reference of the Standards and
Constitutional Oversight Committee Panel’s (Sub-Committees)
are also set out in Article 9.
The Standards and
Constitutional Oversight Committee will:-
(i) promote and maintain high standards of conduct by
Members, Co-Opted Members and church and parent governor
representatives;
(ii) to advise and recommend to Council the adoption,
revision or replacement of the Code(s) of Conduct for Members,
Co-Opted Members and Officers.
(iii) assist the Members and Co-Opted Members and church
and parent governor representatives to observe the Members’
Code of Conduct;
(iv) monitor and review the complaints made under the
Members’ Code of Conduct; including the operation of the
Members’ Code of Conduct;
(v) advise, train or arrange to train Members, Co-Opted
Members and church and parent governor representatives on matters
relating to the Members’ Code of Conduct;
(vi) establish, amend or revise
arrangements under which allegations that an elected or co-opted
Member of the Council has failed, or may have failed, to comply
with the Council’s Code of Conduct for Members can be
investigated (which shall include but not be limited to developing
and adopting procedures and protocols and authorising the
Council’s Monitoring Officer to make such changes to the
arrangements as are considered necessary for the effective and
timely investigation of allegations).
(vii) establish, amend or revise
arrangements under which decisions on allegations that an elected
or co-opted Member of the Council has failed, or may have failed,
to comply with the Members’ Code of Conduct can be made
(which shall include but not be limited to developing and adopting
procedures and protocols and authorising the Council’s
Monitoring Officer to make such changes to the arrangements as are
considered necessary for effective and timely decision
making).
(viii) support the
Monitoring Officer in the exercise of that Officer’s ethical
standards functions, in particular the duty to establish and
maintain registers of interests for the Council.
(ix) in relation to Members or Co-Opted Members or church
and/or parent governor representatives with pecuniary interests,
putting in place arrangements to grant dispensations, in
appropriate cases, from the restrictions on speaking and/or
voting.
(x) to exercise all other functions of the Council in
relation to ethical standards, in particular those under Chapter 7
of the Localism Act 2011.
(xi) monitoring and reviewing as necessary the operation
of whistle-blowing procedures;
(xii) considering reports arising from
external inspections, audit investigations, Ombudsman
investigations where maladministration is found, legal challenges
and other sources which cast doubt on the honesty or integrity of
the Council or its Members;
(xiii) to consider and make recommendations
on such other matters as the Committee itself thinks appropriate or
which are referred to it by Council, which further the aim of
promoting and maintaining the highest standards of conduct within
the Council;
(xiv) approve the
payment of compensation involving sums in excess of £5,000
(or less, if considered appropriate) to settle complaints of
maladministration.
(xv) establishing such sub-committees and/or panel as are
required to discharge its role and the functions as set out in
these Terms of Reference.
(xvi) To keep the
Council’s constitutional arrangements under review and to
make such recommendations to the council as it considers
appropriate for ways in which it should be amended in order better
to achieve the purposes set out in
Article 1.
(xvii) To oversee and agree
such minor and consequential changes to the Council’s
constitutional arrangements as are recommended by the Monitoring
officer from time to time.
The Committee shall have delegated power and
responsibility to act on behalf of the Council as Trustee of the
E.F Callister Youth Club.
