Issue - meetings

Committee is asked to:

1.     Note the updated Confidential Reporting Code; and

2.     Agree to retain the current Confidential Reporting Code as updated.

The Committee received the report from the Monitoring Officer reporting on the annual review of the Confidential Reporting Code.

The Committee were advised of the requirement for the Code to be reviewed annually by the Council’s Monitoring Officer and then reported to the Audit Committee.

The Committee were further advised that the annual review of the Confidential Reporting Code had taken place, the Code was fit for purpose and did not require amendment other than details relating to the Monitoring Officer.

It was reported that since the code had been last reviewed in September 2024, there had been no matters raised under the Code.

Councillor Howkins requested that it be noted that she was not in agreement to retain the current Confidential Reporting Code and requested that the Code go “further and be more strongly implemented.”

The Committee resolved to:

1.    Note the updated Confidential Reporting Code; and

2.    Agree to retain the current Confidential Reporting Code as updated.