This session will address the drafting of a new set of practice standards and guidance document for the operation of the monitoring officer, chief finance officer and head of paid service.
LLG, CIPFA and Solace regularly discuss issues of shared concern together. The focus of that, as ever, is how to promulgate best practice in the workings of the golden triangle and their incredibly difficult roles to ensure good governance, financial stability, and high ethical standards. In the light of the upsurge in public interest reports, the issuing of s.114 reports and the government looking at new best value guidance and assurance frameworks, the three organisations are proposing for the first time to issue a shared code. For LLG, this will replace or support the Monitoring Officer Protocol and handbook and, for CIPFA, will become an enforceable professional standard.
This session for monitoring officers and deputy monitoring officers will be the chance to discuss these standards and guidance and what it is to contain.
Phillip specialises in local authorities’ corporate law and decision making. He joined his first local authority in 1988 as a trainee Chartered Secretary and then Solicitor. Phillip was first made an authority’s Monitoring Officer and a member of the senior management team in 2000. Since then he has acted on governance, standards and monitoring officer issues for a wide range of local authorities, combined authorities and central government through both consultancy and direct employment.
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