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Course focus

Housing & Environmental Investigations

Date:
12 December 2008
Venue:
ETC Venues, London
CPD:
4.5

Training programmes

Misconduct

This course is aimed at Local Authority Monitoring Officers, Standards Committee Members, Solicitors, Administrators and Complaints Officers

S66 regulations and updates will be included

The course will cover:

  • An overview of the new system
  • The roles of the Standards Board, Standards Committees and the Monitoring Officer
  • Local Codes of Conduct for members
  • Practical problems with the Code
  • A summary of Case Tribunal findings to date
  • Reference of complaints to local authorities
  • Model procedures for investigation of complaints
  • Reporting to Standards Committees
  • Practical procedures for Standards Committees
  • Self-Regulatory powers of local authorities
  • Confidentiality issues
  • Sanctions
  • Practical examples on the Codes of Conduct
  • Parallel constraints on member conduct and overlapping jurisdictions