...where appropriate informally. However, we made a number of recommendations to strengthen and clarify the system including a new model code of conduct, stronger safeguards for managing conflicts of interests...
...government’s commitment to legislate for a new electoral offence of intimidation of candidates and campaigners during elections; and the LGA’s model code of conduct published in December which sets out...
...established in the 20th century may face new and different challenges in the 21st. We believe the time is therefore right to take a fresh look at how standards are...
...attention. It is, as our new Chair, Lord Evans, recently described, ‘a hearts and minds issue’. High ethical standards start with leadership; the tone of any organisation always comes from...
