Agenda

Meeting

Standards and Governance Committee

To:

Councillors Clive Pearson (Chair), Heather Phillips (Vice Chair), Nick Brown, Melanie Davis, David Ireton, Nigel Knapton, Monika Slater, Mike Schofield, Andy Solloway and Peter Wilkinson.

Independent Persons Gill Baker, Louise Holroyd, Jamie Nelson and Richinda Taylor.

Date:

Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Time:

2.00 pm

Venue:

Brierley Room - County Hall

 

 

Business

 

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1.  

Apologies for Absence

 

 

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2.  

Minutes of the Meeting held on 20 June 2025

 

(Pages 3 - 10)

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3.  

Declarations of Interest

 

 

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4.  

Public Questions and Statements

 

 

Members of the public may ask questions or make statements at this meeting if they have given notice and provided the text to Christine Phillipson christine.phillipson@northyorks.gov.uk no later than midday on Friday 12 September 2025, three working days before the meeting takes place. Each speaker should limit themselves to three minutes on any item. 

 

If you are exercising your right to speak at this meeting, but do not wish to be recorded, please inform the Chair who will instruct those taking a recording to cease whilst you speak.

 

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5.  

Local Ethical Framework Developments

 

(Pages 11 - 16)

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6.  

Complaints Update

 

(Pages 17 - 30)

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7.  

Kirby Grindalythe and Duggleby Final Recommendations from the Community Governance Review

 

(Pages 31 - 40)

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8.  

Temporary Appointments to Parish Councils

 

(Pages 41 - 42)

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9.  

Standards Bulletin

 

(Pages 43 - 56)

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10.  

Standards Training Plan

 

(Pages 57 - 60)

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11.  

Work Programme

 

(Pages 61 - 68)

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12.  

Additional Meeting for 2025/2026 Community Governance Reviews

 

 

To agree a date for an additional Standards and Governance Meeting in early February 2026 to review the stage 1 results and proposals for the stage 2 consultation on the 2025/2026 Community Governance Reviews.

 

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13.  

Date of the Next Meeting

 

 

The next Scheduled meeting of the Committee is 13 March 2026.

 

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Members of the public are entitled to attend this meeting as observers for all those items taken in open session. You may be interested in subscribing to updates about this or any other North Yorkshire Council committee.

 

Recording is allowed at Council, committee and sub-committee meetings which are open to the public. Please give due regard to the Council’s protocol on audio/visual recording and photography at public meetings. We ask that any recording is clearly visible to anyone at the meeting and that it is non-disruptive.

 

Anyone wishing to record is asked to contact the Democratic Services Officer (details below) prior to the start of the meeting.

 

 

Contact Details

 

For enquiries relating to this agenda and meeting please contact:

Christine Phillipson, Principal Democratic Services Officer

E-mail: christine.phillipson@northyorks.gov.uk

Tel: 01609 535941

Website: www.northyorks.gov.uk

 

 

Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive

Legal and Democratic Services

County Hall

Northallerton

 

Tuesday, 9 September 2025

 

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