What is the Standards Board for England’s role?

The Standards Board for England provides national, independent oversight of the GLA’s operation of the complaints process.

To do this, the Standards Board for England has various powers and responsibilities:

It can give the GLA Standards Committee and GLA Members guidance on understanding the GLA’s Code of Conduct and how to deal with complaints about the conduct of GLA Members.
It can investigate the most serious complaints where the GLA Standards Committee believes it is not best placed to deal with these and the Standards Boards agrees.
It can publish information about how the GLA and other authorities are dealing with complaints about their Members.
It can require the GLA to inform the Standards Board how well the GLA is dealing with complaints about the conduct of GLA Members.
If necessary, it can work with the GLA’s Standards Committee to help it improve if it does not deal with complaints about GLA Members properly.
It can take away the power of the GLA’s Standards Committee to receive complaints about GLA Members if the Standards Board considers this necessary.