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 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

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	112K 56Kbps Modem: 16 Seconds Broadband: 1 Second
	Standards Committee Complaints Form - Guidance Notes	58K 56Kbps Modem: 9 Seconds Broadband: 1 Second