The Code Uncovered
Our latest DVD, 'The Code Uncovered', has been produced to help monitoring officers, councillors and standards committees understand their obligations under the Code.It uses a dramatised scenario to illustrate the lead-up to a potentially explosive planning committee meeting, and highlights the key changes to the revised Code. You can download a clip from the film below or read a text transcript of the scene.
The DVD has been distributed to all monitoring officers and County Association secretaries. Additional copies can be bought from the Standards Board at a cost of £38 each. To order extra copies, please email publications@standardsboard.gov.uk.
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Text transcript of scene from 'The Code Uncovered'
Councillor Hargreaves tries to walk past unnoticed in the street, but Councillor Austin hails her in a jocular way.
Cllr Austin: Hello Councillor Hargreaves! Have you come to sign the petition?
Mrs Eldridge: (innocently) Oh yes, please do.
Cllr Hargreaves looks disdainfully at the poster, the petition and Mrs Eldridge and stomps off.
Cllr Hargreaves: Unlike Councillor Austin, I'm reserving judgment until I've heard all the facts. Good day.
Mrs Eldridge: Do I get the impression that Councillor Hargreaves is not totally opposed to the development?
Cllr Austin: I couldn't possibly comment.
Mrs Eldridge: Oh dear, you're all being very cautious.
Cllr Austin: Even though we might have a view, councillors can't appear to have prejudged the outcome.
Mrs Eldridge: (bemused) I see.
Cllr Austin: Otherwise the courts could overturn our decisions. It's called predetermination and you really don't want to go there.
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