Agenda and draft minutes

None received.

The press and public were excluded from the meeting by virtue of the Local Government Act 1972, Schedule 12A, Part 4, paragraphs 12 and 22.

We received a report in which we were required to consider a referral from the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales and to make an initial determination pursuant to the committee’s procedure, attached at Appendix 1 of the report (“the Procedure”).

In doing so, we agreed with the Ombudsman’s findings that that there had been sufficient evidence to suggest that paragraphs 4(b) and 6(1)(a) of the code may have been breached and therefore invoked paragraph 4.1.2 of ‘’the Procedure’’, namely:

·       there is evidence of a potential failure to comply with the Code of Conduct and any person who is the subject of the investigation should be given the opportunity to make representations, either orally or in writing in respect of the findings of the investigation and any allegation that he or she has failed, or may have failed, to comply with the relevant Authority's Code of Conduct.

we resolved to instruct the Monitoring Officer to make arrangements for a hearing to be held in accordance with the rules outlined in ‘’the Procedure’’.