Agenda

To elect a Chair for the municipal year 2025/26.

To elect a Vice-Chair for the municipal year 2025/26.

To consider a start time for future meetings of the Committee.

To receive any apologies for absence and notices of appointment of Substitute Members (if any).

To receive any questions from members of the public.

To consider whether to approve the minutes as a correct record of the meeting held on 5 February 2025.

To record any interests on agenda matters.

To receive any announcements the Chair of the Committee may wish to make.

To consider any amendments to the Constitution following Motions approved by Council in the period since the last meeting.

To receive a report from the Director of Legal, People and Governance (Monitoring Officer) on the Annual report of the Monitoring Officer 2024/2025.

To receive a verbal update from the Director of Legal, People and Governance (Monitoring Officer) on the Government Consultant- Strengthening the Standards and Conduct Framework for Local Authorities in England.

To agree and appoint three new Members to the Working Group to continue the work to review the Terms of Reference for the Advisory Groups.

To receive a report from Director of Legal, People and Governance on advise to Elected Members who may be Victims of Crime.

Discussion with regard to item 15, may require the Committee to pass the following resolution to exclude the press and public having reflected on Article 12 12.02(d) (a presumption in favour of openness) of the Constitution. This decision may be required because consideration of this matter in public may disclose information falling within one of the descriptions of exempt information in Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972. The Committee would need to decide whether, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption, outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Recommended that under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972 the public be excluded from the next item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 respectively of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, namely information relating to an individual.

To receive an update from the Monitoring Officer with regard to any on-going complaints being dealt with. 

Members are asked to note that the following items are already identified in the work programme for the next meeting: