Councillor Code of Conduct - Complaints Process

If you want to complain about the conduct of a member of Winchester City Council or a member of one of our parish or town councils, you must submit your complaint to the City Council's Monitoring Officer, Stephen Whetnall. If you have a more general complaint about the work of the Council, please use the Corporate Complaints Procedure by clicking on the link at the side of this page.

The Standards (Assessment) Sub-Committee can only deal with complaints about the behaviour of a member. It will not deal with complaints about things that are not covered by the members' Code of Conduct. If you make a complaint to the Sub-Committee it must be about why you think a member has not followed the Code of Conduct.

If you make a complaint to the Committee, it must be about why you think a Councillor has not followed the Code of Conduct. Examples of this could include:

• Unlawfully discriminating against someone
• Failing to declare a personal/prejudicial interest
• Bullying
• Failing to treat people with respect
• Using their position improperly, to their own or someone else's advantage

From 8 May 2008 the responsibility for considering complaints that a Member may have breached the Code of Conduct moved to the standards committees of local authorities (rather than being dealt with by the Standards Board).

Further information can be downloaded from the documents below.

Downloads:

File format	File title	File size / Download time
	Code of Conduct for Winchester City Council	37K 56Kbps Modem: 5 Seconds Broadband: 1 Second
	Code of Conduct for Parish and Town Councillors	68K 56Kbps Modem: 10 Seconds Broadband: 1 Second
	Local Assessment of Complaints Process	124K 56Kbps Modem: 18 Seconds Broadband: 1 Second
	Standards Committee Complaints Form	108K 56Kbps Modem: 16 Seconds Broadband: 1 Second
	Standards Committee Complaints Form - Guidance Notes	58K 56Kbps Modem: 9 Seconds Broadband: 1 Second