The Standards Forum

About the Standards Forum

The Standards Forum is an online community where council officers and standards committee members can network, ask questions, share good practice, make recommendations and discuss topics relating to the local standards framework.

The Forum currently has over 1,000 registered users and this number is increasing every day.

Popular topics of debate include the promotion of ethical behaviour, dealing with vexatious complaints and the standards regime after the Localism Bill.

Participating in the forum

The Forum is for registered users only. If you are a council officer and would like to register, please speak to your monitoring officer. If you are a standards committee member and you would like to register, please speak to your monitoring officer or contact us at the email below.

All Forum users will be asked to sign up to the Standards Forum policy the first time they log on.

Sharing information

Whilst not everyone can access the Forum, we may from time to time choose to use or share information from it. Discussions on the Forum may inform our guidance, provide examples of notable practice, and point us to areas of concern for standards committees that we may want to address.

Please note that Standards for England does not endorse the opinions expressed on the Forum.

Contact

For questions or comments on the forum, or to request to join, please contact forum@standardsforengland.gov.uk or speak to one of our forum moderators by calling 0845 078 8181.