Agenda

Hybrid Meeting - Committee Room, Council Offices, Llangefni and virtually via Zoom, Standards Committee - Thursday, 6th February, 2025 10.00 am

A number of council meetings are live-streamed.

All meetings are also uploaded after the event onto the our webcasting site.

Venue: Committee Room, Council Offices, Llangefni and virtually via Zoom

Contact: Shirley Cooke 

Items
No. Item

1.

Declaration of Interest

To receive any declaration of interest from a Member or Officer regarding any item of business.

 

2.

Elect a Vice-Chair pdf icon PDF 89 KB

To elect a Vice-Chair for the Isle of Anglesey County Council’s Standards Committee.

3.

Minutes of Meetings pdf icon PDF 167 KB

To confirm the draft minutes of the previous meetings of the Standards Committee held on 18 June 2024 and the extraordinary meeting held on 16 September 2024.

Additional documents:

4.

Democratic Services Update pdf icon PDF 96 KB

A report by the Head of Democratic Services.

 

5.

Member Development pdf icon PDF 460 KB

A report by the Human Resources Development Manager.

6.

Conduct Complaints to the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales pdf icon PDF 314 KB

A report by the Director of Function (Council Business)/Monitoring Officer in relation to: -

 

(a) County Councillors, and

(b) Town/Community Councillors

for Quarters 1, 2 and 3 of 2024/2025

7.

Decisions by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales pdf icon PDF 169 KB

A report by the Director of Function (Council Business)/Monitoring Officer on the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales Investigation Outcomes published since the last Standards Committee meeting.

 

8.

Decisions by the Adjudication Panel for Wales pdf icon PDF 148 KB

A report by the Director of Function (Council Business)/Monitoring Officer on the APW’s decisions in Wales since the last Standards Committee meeting.

 

9.

Applications for Dispensations

It is usual practice for a report to be prepared to the Standards Committee by the Director of Function (Council Business)/Monitoring Officer on the applications for dispensations considered by the Standards Committee. During the period between the Standards Committee on 18 June 2024 and the day of publishing this agenda, no applications have been received. On this basis, no report is attached.

10.

Update from the National Standards Committee Forum pdf icon PDF 125 KB

A report by the Director of Function (Council Business)/Monitoring Officer on the National Forum for Independent Members of Standards Committees in Wales.

11.

Review by the Standards Committee of the Registers of Interests of elected members of the County Council pdf icon PDF 433 KB

A report by the Director of Function (Council Business)/Monitoring Officer with details of the progress made in relation to the findings from the reviews of registers of interests for a sample of elected members.

 

12.

Public Services Ombudsman for Wales (PSOW) Independent Review Report pdf icon PDF 107 KB

A report by the Director of Function (Council Business)/Monitoring Officer presenting the report published following an independent review of the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales’s Code of Conduct Cases.

13.

PSOW Consultation regarding recommendation number 2 of the Independent Review pdf icon PDF 262 KB

A report by the Director of Function (Council Business)/Monitoring Officer presenting the consultation paper published in relation to a recommendation made in the report following the independent review of the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales’s Code of Conduct Cases.

 

14.

Local Resolution Protocols adopted by authorities in Wales pdf icon PDF 548 KB

A report by the Director of Function (Council Business)/Monitoring Officer with details of the work done by the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales in relation to the different Local Resolution Protocols adopted by authorities in Wales.

15.

Standards Committee Hearings Process pdf icon PDF 297 KB

A report by the Director of Function (Council Business)/Monitoring Officer enclosing an amended Standards Committee Hearings Process.

16.

Exclusion of the Press and Public pdf icon PDF 99 KB

To consider adopting the following: -

 

“Under Section 100 (A) (4) of the Local Government Act 1972, to exclude the press and public from the meeting during the discussion on the following item on the grounds that it may involve the disclosure of exempt information as defined in Schedule 12A of the said Act and in the attached Public Interest Test.”

17.

Conduct Issues

A report by the Director of Function (Council Business)/Monitoring Officer sharing details of the Decision Notices received from the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales.