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Local assessment training exercise now available
The Standards Board for England has published a training exercise for standards committees, which aims to prepare them for the forthcoming changes to the standards framework. This will see standards committees become responsible for assessing Code of Conduct complaints and deciding whether action needs to be taken. The exercise has been adapted from the local filter pilot exercise, which you can read about here.
The training exercise consists of a range of anonymised complaints that we have dealt with. Each case includes a set of papers submitted by a complainant and a summary of each complaint to help the standards committee in its decisions. There are also two appeal cases that will give the standards committee practice at operating the appeal mechanism.
The aim is for standards committees to decide what action, if any, they would take in relation to the complaint. For example, to decide whether they think the case merits referral for investigation. A report that sets out the benefits of the exercise and how to carry it out is available to download with the case papers.
We have also provided decisions on the cases that reflect what action the Standards Board might have taken in relation to each complaint. However, we recommend that the person organising the training only reveals the decisions once the standards committee has completed the exercise.
For more information on local assessment, please see the relevant pages on our website. There will be further updates in our news section in due course.
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