Jackson Ng at Standards & General Purposes Committee, 23 April 2026

Annual Review of Member Code of Conduct Complaints 2025/26 (part 22 of 31)

· Standards & General Purposes Committee, Buckinghamshire Council · 0:57

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I think it's good to have it, the association come in to talk about all this with us. And I think we all agree that we will invite them for the next session, whoever the chair, he or she might be. Just following on as well, before we come back to other councillors, is it appears to me with the mandatory code coming forward and our engagement with the local associations and parishes, etc. But also the number of complaints have gone up. Although, you know, there's no direct sort of financial implications being mentioned in the report. Are we confident that the officer team, the monitoring officer teams, has sufficient resources to handle increased volumes of complaints? We're hoping it goes down, obviously, but if it continues to go up, because people are not respecting each other or people don't know, do we have enough resources? How are we coping on that front? Thank you. I would say at this stage, without seeing what comes down the line, I would say to me, is that I think that I'm going to say the moment and I'm going to say the moment?

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