Issue - meetings

Report CSD17094

One of the Committee’s duties was to make appointments to a range of partnerships and “outside bodies” on behalf of the Council. The report divided these appointments into five broad categories –

(i)  London Councils appointments and lead Members;

(ii)  Partnerships and Local Boards;

(iii) organisations providing services in the borough;

(iv) London or regional organisations;

(v)  local charities and foundations.

Most of these appointments were made annually, following the Council year, in May. The report offered the opportunity to review the purpose of making these appointments. 

Guidance on membership of Outside Bodies was set out in Appendix 8 to the Council’s Constitution. Councillors owed a first duty to a trust when acting as a trustee, and needed to be covered by the trust’s own indemnities. It was suggested that this point should be clarified, and the guidance included in the induction materials circulated to Councillors after the 2018 local elections.  

RESOLVED that the report be noted.