Mission creep and the Committee on Standards in Public Life; why its time for a new approach to get back to basics

The Committee on Standards in Public Life was introduced in order to restore a degree of confidence in the integrity of public officials following a number of scandals during the late 1980s and early 1990’s. Alan Doig suggests that the committee is not performing effectively, and that it is still unclear how to deliver and embed a system which delivers public integrity.