These arrangements set out how to make a complaint that an elected or co-opted member of this Authority has failed to comply with its code of conduct, and sets out how the Authority will deal with allegations of a failure to comply with its code of conduct. There is a separate procedure for dealing with whistleblowing complaints.
Under the Localism Act 2011, the Council must have in place arrangements under which allegations that a member or co-opted member of the Authority, or of a committee or sub-committee, has failed to comply with the code of conduct, can be investigated and decisions made on such allegations.
Such arrangements must provide for the Authority to appoint at least one independent person, whose views must be sought by the Authority before it takes a decision on an allegation which it has decided shall be investigated, and whose views can be sought by the Authority at any other stage, or by a subject member.