What your complaint should include
Your complaint should include all of the points:
- Details of who you are and how to contact you
- The name of the County Councillor(s) you are complaining about
- Details of what your complaint is about and how you believe the county councillor has breached the Members' Code of Conduct
- Details of any supporting documents or evidence, with copies provided if available.
To support you in submitting your complaint, an online complaint form is available, alongside downloadable complaint forms in both Word and PDF formats. These forms are designed to help ensure you provide all the information needed to consider your complaint.
Anonymous Complaints
Staffordshire County Council would not normally allow anonymous complaints as that would be against the principles of transparency and fairness, and would make matters much more difficult to investigate. If you make a complaint, you should be aware that we are unlikely to be able to keep your identity confidential.
However, there may be exceptional compelling reasons why an anonymous complaint could be accepted without detriment to the process and where the allegation can be evidenced without reference to the complainant. As such, the merit of any anonymous complaint received will be considered by the Monitoring Officer before it is entered into the complaints process.
