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All of a sudden we find that there is a "Standards Committee" at our local county council.

We thought this was abolished years ago as a quango.

Can someone explain what this is please?

Thank you
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The committee still exists, it was the standards board that was abolished.
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Thank you. Got it. But this committee does deal with breaches of the Code of Conduct as well which have been reported to hte monitoring officer; is this correct
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They do, yes, it is less bureaucratic that the old standards board and should reach resolutions quicker, their maximum power, I believe, is censure.
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Censure; sounds fairly pointless to me especially if you have some egotistic, bigoted bully who really doesn't care either way.
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