Introduction
This Bulletin comes at a time of big change for us following the Government’s announcement of its intention ‘to abolish the Standards Board regime’. Whilst we still await the detail of this policy, we will share with you what we know about what is proposed, and outline the timetable for our closure.
Although we have had to modify our work programme in light of this proposal, we remain ‘open for business’ and set out in this Bulletin our schedule of activities for the coming year. We are committed to continuing to work with you and support you in operating the standards framework successfully.
This is a sad month for us as we say goodbye to many valued staff leaving the organisation in our first wave of redundancies. We are losing people who have contributed much to this organisation, and many of whom have worked for us for some time. They will be much missed. We wish them all well in their future endeavours and thank them sincerely for their hard work.
