Issue - meetings

To receive a report following a meeting of the North-West Independent Members’ Forum held at Preston on 21^st April 2009.

The Committee is asked to endorse the continued representation of independent members on this Forum as an approved duty under the Scheme of Members’ Allowances 2009/2010.

The Committee received the report of Mr D Sayer, the Vice-Chairman, following attendance at a meeting of the North-West Independent Members Forum held at Preston on 21^st April 2009.

It was noted that the guest speaker had been Freda Sharkey, Acting Head of Legal Services at the Standards Board for England. The Forum had discussed, inter alia, practical issues surrounding receipt of complaints, the appropriate level of detail of a complaint to be disclosed to the subject Member at the initial stages, and the new Model Code of Conduct.

The Members who had attended considered it to be worthwhile and asked the Committee to support their continued representation.

RESOLVED: That the Committee endorse the continued representation of |ndependent Members of the Committee on this Forum as an approved duty under the Scheme of Members Allowances 2009/2010.