Assessing the impact of standards committees

Assessing the impact of standards committees is a piece of research carried out jointly by the University of Hull and the University of Teeside, investigating examples of notable practice in standards committees.

The research is founded on a purely qualitative methodology, centring on nine case studies, each looking at a specific example of notable practice. This was designed to establish real-life stories rather than a scientific measure of how notable the practice may be.

The full report can be found here.

The individual case studies can be accessed below:

 Organisational Learning: Bristol City Council

 Working with town and parish councils: Taunton Deane Borough Council

 Developing members: Surrey Police Authority

 Working with partnerships: Newark and Sherwood District Council

 Recruitment and retention: South Cambridgeshire District Council

 Joint training and development: Herefordshire Council

 Joint standards and audit committee: Runnymede Borough Council

 High pressure investigations: Greater London Authority

 Embedding standards: Newcastle City Council