Agenda

Meeting

Standards and Governance Committee

To:

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

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

Date:

Friday, 19 June 2026

Time:

10.00 am

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 13 March 2026

 

(Pages 5 - 16)

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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 the Democratic Services Officer (details below) no later than midday on Tuesday, 16 June 2026, three working days before the day of the meeting.

 

 

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.  

Registration and Publication of Councillors' Usual Residential Address

 

(Pages 17 - 48)

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6.  

Local Ethical Framework Developments

 

(Pages 49 - 66)

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7.  

Complaints Update

 

(Pages 67 - 86)

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8.  

Members Attendance at Committees Report 2025-2026

 

(Pages 87 - 94)

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9.  

Temporary Appointments to Parish Councils

 

(Pages 95 - 96)

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10.  

Standards Training Plan

 

(Pages 97 - 102)

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11.  

Standards Bulletin

 

(Pages 103 - 114)

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12.  

Work Programme

 

(Pages 115 - 122)

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13.  

Additional Standards Meetings

 

 

Additional Standards and Governance Meetings have been convened for :

 

Tuesday 30th June 2026 at 10am to approve the final recommendations of the Community Governance Review prior to Full Council on 15th July 2026.

 

Tuesday 24th November 2026 to approve the polling district and polling place review commencing in August, ahead of the updated register publication in December 2026.

 

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14.  

Any other items

 

 

Any other items which the Chair agrees should be considered as a matter of urgency because of special circumstances.

 

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15.  

Date of the next meeting

 

 

Dates of the next Standards and Governance meetings are as follows:

 

Tuesday June 30th 2026 at 10am

Wednesday 16th September at 2pm

Tuesday November 24th 2026 at 10am

 

 

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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:

Name, 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

 

Thursday, 11 June 2026

 

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