Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Monitoring Officer which outlines progress to date on the development of a Standards Partnerships Protocol.

Standards for England had worked with Manchester City Council to develop a protocol for values and behaviours for use within partnerships.  This had been reported to the Standards Committee on 23^rd November 2009, at which time, a Member/Officer Working Group had been established with the aim of developing a Partnerships Protocol for use within Cheshire East.

The Working Group had revised the draft Protocol issued by Standards for England and had submitted the revision to the Local Strategic Partnership Executive meeting held on 12^th April 2010 for comment. The Executive considered that it required additional time to consider its impact on statutory services such as Children and Adult Services as well as Safer Communities in terms of access to confidential material.  

A further meeting of the Executive (held on 17^th May 2010) would reconsider the document, following which, if appropriate, a further meeting of the Working Group would be convened.  A report on progress would be submitted to the July meeting.  

RESOLVED:

That the Committee receive the report and endorse the progress made.