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. Introduction
to the Constitution 
(198K)
2. Articles of
the Constitution (227K)
3. Responsibility
for Functions (Cabinet) (93K)
4. Responsibility
for Functions (Non-Cabinet) and Scheme of
Delegation (224K)
5. Terms of
Reference Council and Committees (55K)
6. This Section has been deleted from the
Council's
Constitution
7. Council
Procedure Rules (Standing Orders) (342K)
8. Access to
Information Rules (44K)
9. Budget and
Policy Framework Procedure Rules (144K)
10. Procedure
Rules for Scrutiny Committees (164K)
11. Financial
Regulations (147K)
12. Contract
Procedure Rules (464K)
13. Employment
Procedure Rules (81K)
14. Members’ Code
of Conduct and Protocol for the Disclosure of Confidential
Information (53K)
15. Employees’
Code of Conduct (210K)
16. A
Protocol for Member/Officer Relations (162K)
17. Members’
Allowances Scheme (67K)
18. Management
Structure (59K)
19. Statutory
Appointments Designations (19K)
20. Code of
Practice – Local Authority Publicity (36K)
21. Petitions
Scheme (35K)