SULLY community councillor Lino Scaglioni’s appeal against a six month suspension is set to be held in January next year.

Councillor Scaglioni was found guilty of sending “inappropriate and personal” comments to fellow Sully Councillor Kevin Mahoney in four emails between September 2012 and January 2013, contrary to the Sully and Lavernock Community Council’s Members’ Code of Conduct

In July this year the Vale council standards committee suspended Cllr Scaglioni for six months from the community council and ordered him to attend a training session regarding the Members’ Code of Conduct.

Cllr Scaglioni is still serving as a community councillor after appealed against the suspension to the Adjudication Panel for Wales, and the matter is now due to be heard in the New Year.

The Vale council’s standards committee is set to note a report into his alleged failure to observe the Members’ Code of Conduct on Tuesday, December 16.

During the same meeting the committee is also set to note a report about the training given to town and community councillors relating to the Members’ Code of Conduct.

The report notes that a charter exists between the Vale of Glamorgan Council and Town and Community Councils that requires Town and Community Council Clerks and Councillors, elected or appointed after November 2012, to receive a presentation on the role of the Monitoring Officer and Members' Code of Conduct.

In a bid to comply with this a training session was held on December 4 by the monitoring officer Ms Debbie Marles and chairman of the standards committee Mr Hallett, who provided an overview of the standards committee.

The Members' Code of Conduct training was delivered by the organisation "One Voice Wales” and the £350 cost was met by the Vale of Glamorgan Council.

There were 15 attendees, which included a finance officer, a Vale of Glamorgan Member attending in their role as a Town/Community Councillor, and 13 Town or Community Councillors.

Following the session all attendees were invited to complete a feedback questionnaire, with an overall satisfaction rate for all questions amounting to 5.7 out of six.