Constitution
What is in the Council's Constitution?
- The rules setting out how this council operates.
- The rules of the Cabinet and other committees.
- The policy framework of the Council.
What is its purpose?
- To enable the Council to provide clear leadership to the
community in partnership with citizens, businesses and other
organisations.
- To support the active involvement of citizens in the process of
local authority decision-making.
- To help councillors represent their constituents more
effectively.
- To enable decisions to be taken efficiently and
effectively.
- To create a powerful and effective means of holding
decision-makers to public account.
- To ensure that no one will review or scrutinise a decision in
which they were directly involved.
- To ensure that those responsible for decision-making are
clearly identifiable to local people and that they explain the
reasons for decisions and provide a means of improving the delivery
of services to the community.
1. Index
and Introduction to the
Constitution 
(58K)
2. Articles
of the Constitution (75K)
3. Responsibility
for Functions (Cabinet) (36K)
4. Responsibility for
Functions (Non-Cabinet) – Currently being updated
5. Terms
of Reference Council and
Committees (83K)
6. Introduction
to Scheme of Delegation to
Officers (22K)
Scheme
of Delegation to Officers (306K)
7. Council Procedure Rules
(Standing Orders) Currently being updated
8. Access
to Information Rules (44K)
9. Budget
and Policy Framework Procedure
Rules (32K)
10. Procedure
Rules for Scrutiny Committees (48K)
11. Financial Regulations -
Currently being updated
12. Standing
Orders Relating to Contracts (64K)
13. Employment
Procedure Rules (81K)
14. Members’
Code of Conduct and Protocol for the Disclosure of Confidential
Information (53K)
15. Employees’
Code of Conduct (46K)
16. A
Protocol for Member/Officer
Relations (36K)
17. Members’
Allowances Scheme (45K)
18. Management
Structure (201K
19. Statutory
Appointments Designations (19K)
20. Code
of Practice – Local Authority
Publicity (36K)
21. Petitions
Scheme (35K)
