Agenda

Meeting

Standards and Governance Committee

Venue:

The Brierley Room, County Hall, Northallerton

Date:

Friday, 14 March 2025

Time:

10.00 am

Councillors: Clive Pearson (Chairman), Heather Phillips (Vice-Chair), Nick Brown, Sam Cross, Melanie Davis, David Ireton, Nigel Knapton, Monika Slater, Andy Solloway and Peter Wilkinson.

Independent Persons for Standards: Gillian Baker, Hilary Gilbertson, Louise Holroyd, James Nelson and Richinda Taylor.

 

 

Members of the public are entitled to attend this meeting as observers for all those items taken in open session. Please contact the Democratic Services Officer whose details are at the foot of the first page of the agenda if you would like to find out more.

 

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Recording is allowed at North Yorkshire 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, a copy of which is available from Democratic Services. Anyone wishing to record is asked to contact, prior to the start of the meeting, the Democratic Services Officer whose details are at the foot of the first page of the Agenda.  We ask that any recording is clearly visible to anyone at the meeting and that it is non-disruptive.

 

Business

 

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1.  

Welcome and Introductions

 

 

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2.  

Apologies for Absence

 

 

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3.  

Minutes of the Meeting on 6 January 2025

 

(Pages 3 - 8)

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4.  

Declarations of Interest

 

 

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5.  

Public Participation

 

 

Members of the public may ask questions or make statements at this meeting if they have given notice (including the text of the question/statement) to Christine Phillipson of Democratic Services (contact details below) by midday on Tuesday 11th March 2025.

Each speaker should limit themselves to 3 minutes on any item.

 

Members of the public who have given notice will be invited to speak

 

· at this point in the meeting if their questions/statements relate to matters which are not otherwise on the Agenda (subject to an overall time limit of 30 minutes)

 

 or

 

· when the relevant Agenda item is being considered if they wish to speak on a matter which is on the Agenda for this meeting.

 

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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6.  

Annual Report of the Standards and Governance Committee

 

(Pages 9 - 16)

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7.  

Dispensation Request for Councillor Yvonne Peacock

 

(Pages 17 - 22)

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8.  

Local Ethical Framework Developments

 

(Pages 23 - 62)

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9.  

Complaints Update

 

(Pages 63 - 74)

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10.  

Standards Bulletin

 

(Pages 75 - 84)

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11.  

Standards Training Plan

 

(Pages 85 - 88)

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12.  

Work Programme 2025/26

 

(Pages 89 - 94)

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13.  

Urgent Business

 

 

Any other business which the Chairman agrees should be considered as a matter of urgency.

 

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14.  

Date of the Next Meeting

 

 

The next meeting will be on Friday 20 June 2025 at 10am in The Brierley Room, County Hall, Northallerton.

 

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Barry Khan

Assistant Chief Executive

Legal and Democratic Services

 

County Hall

Northallerton

 

6 March 2025

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For any enquiries relating to this agenda please contact Christine Phillipson tel: 01609 535941 or e-mail: christine.phillipson@northyorks.gov.uk