Complaints about councillors
You have a right to expect high standards of conduct from councillors.The standards of conduct expected are set out in the Code of Conduct.
Each councillor has to sign up to the Code of Conduct when they accept office. By signing up to the code, a member is actively taking on a formal obligation to abide by its requirements.
The Standards Committee will investigate allegations that councillors have not behaved in an appropriate way.
If you believe that a councillor has breached the Code of Conduct, you can complain by doing one of the following:
Send an email to john.mcelvaney@derbyshire.gov.uk
Send a letter to:
Director of Legal Services
Derbyshire County Council
County Hall
Matlock
Derbyshire
DE4 3AG
Fill in the complaints form (in the related documents section) and send it to the address printed on the form.
Your complaint will be acknowledged and will then be looked at by a sub-committee of our Standards Committee who will decide whether it should be investigated.
This sub-committee is chaired by an independent member.
Related documents
The following document is in Portable Document Format (PDF). You can download the PDF software for free from the Adobe website (opens in a new window)