About us
The Standards Board provides the national and independent oversight necessary for there to be confidence in a locally based system of ethical complaints.
Our responsibilities include:
- giving standards committees and councillors support and guidance on understanding the Code of Conduct, and on how to deal with complaints about the conduct of members of their council or authority
- monitoring the performance of local authorities in the local assessment of complaints
- publishing information about how councils and other authorities are dealing with complaints about their members
- working with standards committees to help them improve if they do not deal with complaints about their members properly
- removing the power of the standards committee to receive complaints about their members, if we believe it necessary
- investigating the most serious cases where the local standards committee believes it is not best placed to deal with the matter and we agree with them
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