The Council’s Monitoring Officer is the Borough Solicitor, Catherine Whitehead.
Every local authority must appoint someone to be the Monitoring Officer. The Monitoring Officer is entrusted with ensuring that all decisions that the Council makes are within the law. The Monitoring Officer also has a key role in promoting and maintaining high standards of conduct amongst Members of the authority, particularly through support to Members of the Council to help them to follow the Code of Conduct and the Council’s other rules and procedures. She is also the link between Members and the Standards Committee and between the Authority and he Standards Board for England.
The Monitoring Officer can be contact as follows:
Catherine Whitehead
Borough Solicitor
Department of Corporate Services
Town Hall
Darlington
DL1 5QT
Telephone: 01325 388306
E-mail: catherine.whitehead@darlington.gov.uk
In the absence of the Monitoring Officer, Luke Swinhoe deputises for the Monitoring Officer and can be contacted as follows:
Luke Swinhoe
Legal Services Manager
Department of Corporate Services
Town Hall
Darlington
DL1 5QT
Telephone: 01325 388055
E-mail: luke.swinhoe@darlington.gov.uk