Third Annual Assembly of Standards Committees

Crack the Code

Third Annual Assembly of Standards Committees
13-14 September 2004, International Conference Centre (ICC), Birmingham

A record number of delegates attended this year's conference, which focused on how the Code of Conduct could be developed to maintain momentum for increased standards of ethical behaviour in local government and raised public confidence in local democracy. Guest speakers included the Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP, minister for local and regional government, Sir Alistair Graham, chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, Sir Brian Briscoe, chief executive of the Local Government Association, and David Clark, director general of SOLACE.

Presentations and handouts from the conference are available below, along with the programme and the conference newsletter, the Decoder. Sessions without slides and handouts are not listed.

Feedback and enquiries are always welcome. Please email your comments to annualassembly2004@standardsboard.co.uk.

• Programme
• Plenary sessions
• Workshops
• Newsletters

Programme

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Conference programme, final (98 kb)

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Plenary sessions

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Reporting back, David Prince - presentation (89 kb)

Reporting back, David Prince - speech transcript (158 kb)

Getting the balance right, Sir Alistair Graham - presentation (133 kb)

Developing the Code: an introduction, Patricia Hughes CBE - presentation (105 kb)

The big debate: more than making the trains run on time? - presentation (1,634 kb)

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Workshops

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An independent perspective - presentation (90 kb)

An independent perspective - handout 1 (24 kb)

An independent perspective - handout 2 (23 kb)

At the sharp end - presentation (65 kb)

Bad, but not bad enough? - presentation (87 kb)

Best friend or big brother? - presentation (121 kb)

Bullying - presentation (48 kb)

Campaigners as councillors - presentation (109 kb)

Confidence in local decisions - presentation (80 kb)

Learning from outcomes - presentation (108 kb)

Matters of conscience - presentation (44 kb)

Matters of conscience - handout 1 (28 kb)

Matters of conscience - handout 2 (25 kb)

Matters of conscience - handout 3 (22 kb)

Not enough leaders? - presentation (160 kb)

Planning and the Code - presentation (120 kb)

Shine your light - presentation (126 kb)

The bigger picture - presentation (88 kb)

The local experience - presentation (59 kb)

The local experience - handout (33 kb)

Up to standard? - presentation (79 kb)

What do monitoring officers need? - presentation (161 kb)

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Newsletters

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The Decoder, issue 1 (53 kb)

The Decoder, issue 2 (158 kb)

The Decoder, issue 3  (377 kb)

Developing the Code: conference report (20 kb)

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