Local assessment

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Assessment exercise

The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 has created a change in the Standards Board for England’s role. In future, our focus will be on ensuring that members adhere to the Code of Conduct, and that there are adequate arrangements in place at local level for handling cases and preventing misconduct.

One of the main changes to the standards framework is that local authority standards committees will be responsible for receiving complaints about members and deciding whether any action needs to be taken. The Standards Board is planning for its strategic role by preparing local government for taking on this local assessment function.

There is to be a greater focus on training and support. With this in mind, the Standards Board has created a training exercise to help standards committees develop their ability to assess new complaints. The exercise is based on a pilot that the Standards Board ran in 2007 with approximately 50 participating local authorities.