The amount of complaints made against Liverpool councillors has dropped significantly over the past eight months.
When Liverpool Council established its committee for standards and ethics in July, the number of complaints it received regarding elected city officials stood at 40. A meeting of the committee has since revealed that just one grievance remains outstanding against a member.
Chris Walsh, Liverpool Council’s deputy monitoring officer told councillors at Liverpool Town Hall that a single complaint remained on the authority’s books to be dealt with and was at what he described as the “informal resolution stage.” A report by Mr Walsh to members said that since the committees last meeting in January, a number of complaints had “been resolved whereby an appropriate apology had been offered by the elected member and accepted by the complainant at the informal resolution stage.”
