Share your experiences of local standards

You can discuss anything you find topical in this Bulletin with fellow monitoring officers or standards committee members by using our new online forum. The Standards Forum, launched in October, provides a place for you to network, ask questions, share good practice, make recommendations and discuss any topics relating to the local standards framework.

All monitoring officers were automatically registered for the Forum and asked to send us the details of any members of their standards committees who wanted to join along with one other nominated officer. We have had a positive response and registered an additional 300 users, with more requests for membership being received daily. We intend to open membership up further by granting a further two officer registrations for each authority once we have registered this first wave of users. This is likely to happen early in the new year.

There are currently over 30 different subjects being discussed on the Forum.  Popular topics include recommendations for external investigators and trainers; debates about protocols including the notification of subject members and the publication of decision summaries; and advice on the recruitment of parish members.

To find out more please access the forum.

If you have any questions please contact forum@standardsforengland.gov.uk

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