The independent, documented assessment of reputational risk before any consequential decision or engagement.
What reputational due diligence meansBefore an appointment or selection decision. Independent assessment of a person's publicly accessible record, commissioned by an organisation with a selection, governance or oversight responsibility.
Explore Verify For OrganisationsBefore a sensitive meeting or negotiation. Independent assessment of what can be corroborated about a prospective counterparty and the representations your engagement depends on, commissioned by the organisation considering it.
Explore Pre-Engagement Due Diligence For IndividualsBefore entering professional or public scrutiny. A confidential review of your own publicly accessible record, commissioned by you and issued to you.
Explore Public Profile ReadinessEvery assessment works from material that is publicly or legitimately accessible. Integri does not bypass access controls, use covert methods, or access private, restricted or credential-protected sources.
The scope is agreed at commissioning rather than assumed, and the assessment is made as at a stated date. Where the client holds material relevant to the agreed scope, that material is treated as a starting point for research rather than as established fact. The work is carried out independently of the decision or engagement it informs, and the result is a documented report rather than an impression given in conversation. Findings and conclusions are tied to the evidence on which they rest.
Every assessment is reviewed and authorised by Integri before issue.
An Integri report informs a decision. It does not discharge the client or appointing body's own due diligence or decision-making responsibilities.
Integri is politically neutral. Its methodologies, standards and assessment processes are applied consistently regardless of political affiliation, organisational structure, ideology or elected office. Integri does not endorse political parties, candidates or public policy positions.
Assessment before appointment is only one part of the picture.
Two further stages are available to Integri clients, outside of reputational due diligence.
Planned continuing governance support after appointment, currently in development.
Learn about SustainIntegri's Approach sets out Preventative Governance and the Governance Lifecycle, together with The Case for Assessment, the assessment methodologies and Integri's published material.
Monitoring Officers are carrying more than they used to. Experienced colleagues are retiring faster than they are being replaced, the role is often combined with Head of Legal Services, and reorganisation is redrawing the ground underneath. At the same time a large number of members are new to local government and to the standards regime, which means more advice sought, more training needed, and less institutional memory to draw on.
Almost none of that reaches a Monitoring Officer as a question about a service. It arrives as a situation, usually after the appointment has been made and the conduct has happened, when the remedies are limited and the process is public.
A good deal of what later becomes a standards matter was discoverable beforehand, in the public record. There is a dedicated route setting out what independent assessment before a decision can establish, and what it cannot.
Information for Monitoring OfficersEnquiries fall into three groups: organisational enquiries, individual enquiries, and general governance and compliance matters.
Contact IntegriAll Integri services and outputs are advisory only. Integri does not provide legal advice or representation, exercise statutory powers, certify compliance, determine suitability or fitness for any role, make appointment, selection, disciplinary or removal decisions, or guarantee any particular outcome. Clients and commissioning organisations retain sole responsibility for their own due diligence, human judgement and final decisions. No Integri output must be relied upon as the sole basis for a governance, publication, appointment, selection, engagement, disciplinary, removal or legal decision.