Issue - meetings

Member Safety Guidance

Meeting: 21/11/2022 - Democracy and General Purposes Committee (Item 54)

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Additional documents:

Appendix 1 - Member Safety Guidance, item 54 PDF 350 KB View as HTML (54/2) 60 KB

Minutes:

The Democratic Services Officer introduced the report setting out optional Member Safety Guidance to help support Members. The guidance included an incident reporting form to help Members and Democratic Services in dealing with any incidents raised.

The Committee welcomed the guidance and it was confirmed that it would be sent to all Members, be included in the new Member induction and be made available on the Members area in MS Teams that was under development.

The Committee also congratulated the Democratic Services Officer, Oliviya Parfitt, for her Learner of the Year award given at the national Association of Democratic Services Officers Conference 2022.

RESOLVED: That the Member Safety Guidance, attached at Appendix 1 to the report, be approved.