Issue - meetings

This report will set out proposed revisions to the Whistleblowing Policy for approval by Council.

Discussion:

This report provided details of proposed revisions to the council’s Whistleblowing Policy, which reflected a change to the overarching legislation and further changes of an administrative nature to reflect current post titles, e-mail addresses and contact numbers.

The proposed revisions to the policy had been considered by the Employment Matters Committee on 7 September 2016 and the Audit Committee on 29 September 2016 and their comments were set out in paragraph 4 of the report.

The Chairman of the Employment Matters Committee, Councillor Wicks, supported by the Portfolio Holder for Resources, Councillor Gulvin, proposed the recommendation in the report.

Decision:

The Council agreed the revised Whistleblowing Policy, as set out in Appendix 1 to the report.

This report seeks Members’ agreement to the proposed revisions to the Council’s Whistleblowing Policy.

Discussion:

Members considered a report which sought agreement to proposed revisions to the council’s Whistleblowing Policy.

Decision:

The Committee agreed to recommend the revised policy to Council, noting that the proposed changes will also be considered by the Audit Committee on 29 September.