Has the new standards frame work readlly made a difference?

摘要

While self-regulation of conduct at national level runs aground, local government has been subjected to detailed and - relatively - independent regulation, through the combined forces of the Code of Conduct, monitoring officers, local standards committees, Standards for England and the Adjudication Panel for England which, together, make up the ethical framework.Key questions, however, are whether this ethical framework has had any effect on local government processes, culture and values; the conduct of councillors; or public attitudes to local government? It is to address these questions that Standards for England commissioned the Centre for Local and Regional Government Research at Cardiff University to undertake an evaluation.