OPEN SESSION

for a meeting of the Architects Registration Board to be held at 8 Weymouth Street, London, W1W 5BU on 14 July 2016 from 11:30am.

 

1. Apologies for Absence
Apologies have been received from Sue Roaf and Alan Jago.

2. Members’ Interests
To note the Register of Member’s Interests and to hear any declarations of potential conflicts of interest for the items below.

STANDING ITEMS

3. Minutes
(i) To approve the minutes of the meeting of 13 May 2016.

4. Matters Arising
To note the update report on actions agreed from previous meetings.

5. Chairman’s Report
To hear a report on matters relating to the conduct of the Board’s business.

6. ARB’s Operational Activities
To note a report from the ARB Team on matters relating to the running of the Board’s business.

7. Management Accounts
Cover Paper
Annex

8. Periodic Review Update
To hear an update on the progress to date.

MATTERS FOR DECISION

9. Approval of ARB’s Investment Strategy
To receive a verbal report from ARB’s Investment Broker (James Malcolmson) and agree the investment strategy going forward.
ARB’s current Investment Strategy and minutes from July 2015

10. Attendance, allowance and Travel Susbistance
To agree an increase to the daily attendance allowance

11. Revisions to the External Professionals and Advisers Policy
To agree the amendments to the External Professionals and Advisers policy.

12. Code of Conduct
To consider consultation responses on Code of Conduct review and agree a new version of the Code

13. Draft Statement of Priorities 2017-2020 and draft 2017 Business Plan
To consider the draft of Statement of Priorties 2017-2020 and the draft 2017 Business Plan.
Cover Paper
Annex A
Annex B

MATTERS FOR NOTE

14. Annual Report from the Investigations Oversight Committee
Cover Paper – Please refer to this version of the document during the meeting.

15. Annual Report from the Prescription Committee
To note the Committee’s 2015 – 2016 Annual Report.

16. Report to the Board on statistics, trends and performance indicators 2016
To note and discuss the report on statistics, trends and performance indicators for January – June 2016.
Cover Paper
Annex A
Annex B

17. Update on the delivery of the 2016 Business Plan
To note and discuss performance against the 2016 Business Plan at the mid-year point.
Cover Paper
Annex A

18. Minutes
To note the draft minutes of:
(i) Investigations Oversight Committee held on 2 June 2016.
(ii) Audit Committee held on 10 June 2016
(iii) Remuneration Committee held on 22 June 2016

19. Any Other Business
To raise any other business (members are asked to notify the Registrar by 10.00am on 12 July 2016 of any points they wish to raise).

20. Dates of meetings 2016
• Thursday, 15 September (Board Meeting)
• Thursday, 24 November (Board Meeting)

Dates of meetings 2017 (Please note that these are subject to confirmation and change)
• Thursday 16 February (Board Meeting)
• Thursday 11 May (Development Day – Board Members only)
• Friday, 12 May (Board Meeting)
• Thursday, 13 July (Board Meeting)
• Thursday, 14 September (Board Meeting)
• Thursday, 23 November (Board Meeting)