This page provides links to resources on the web that are related to issues of public service ethics. Please note that we are not responsible for the content of external sites. Our online survey for standards committee members, monitoring officers and other officers who work with standards committees can be reached by clicking here.
You can find out about members of the research team by clicking on their names below:
UK-Local
- Standards Board for England
- Adjudication Panel for England
- The Commission for Local Administration in England - The English Local Government Ombudsmen
- Audit Commission
- Getting the Balance Right - Tenth Report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life
National
- Cabinet
Office - Propriety & Ethics, including Ministers' Code, Civil Service
Code & Guidance, codes for special advisors and information about the Parliamentary
Ombudsman
- Graham Committe on Standards in Public Life
Research, Non-Governmental Organisations & Consultancies
- OECD Governance site Ethics & Corruption. This website has a comprehensive
'links
to other sites' page which is a good place to start exploring how ethics
is addressed in other countries.
- Public concern at work - an independent charity that supports individuals
who raise concerns about malpractice in their organisations, and tries to convince
leaders of organisations of the value of 'whistle blowing' in good governance.
- Transparency International - NGO working to combat corruption
- Transparency International (UK)
- Evaluating Local Governance - research project evaluating the reforms to political
management brought in by the Local Government Act 2000. All the members of
our team also work on this project.
- EGPA Study Group on Ethics & Integrity of Governance
- The Ethics Resource Centre is an American non-profit organisation which seeks to support ethical leadership in the private and public sectors. Its website includes amongst other things research reports and an ethics toolkit.