The Press Complaints Commission's Governance Review, announced earlier in the year by Baroness Buscombe, has issued its consultation paper and call for evidence today.

The governance review panel is to look into:

"[M]atters relating to the governance of the Press Complaints Commission, and to make recommendations in order further to build public confidence in the administration of independent press regulation in the UK."

Areas under consideration by the review committee, though not limited to, include:

The PCC board

• Does the board have a clear mission?

• Is the size and composition of the board appropriate?   

• What sub-committee structure would best support the work of the board?   

• What criteria should be used to evaluate the Commission's performance?   

• How should the board exercise its supervision of the secretariat?   

• Can the way in which it considers complaints be made more efficient?

• How should sub-committees be selected and chaired, what should they cover, and how should they communicate with the main board?

The Appointments Commission

• Should the terms of membership of the Appointments Commission be set out in the Articles of Association?   

• Should the PCC Chairman also chair the Appointments Commission?   

• Does the current appointments procedure for lay Commissioners and editors require any change?   

• How should the Appointments Commission best assess the performance of serving Commissioners?

Transparency

• Can more information be made public?   

• How otherwise can the transparency of board meetings be improved?   

• Can the PCC's duty of confidence to complainants be reconciled with holding meetings, or part of meetings, in public?   

• How else can transparency generally be improved?

Accountability

• Should the roles of the Charter Commissioner and Charter Compliance Panel, whose responsibilities are set out in paragraphs 55 and 56 of the Articles of Association - be enhanced or expanded?   

• What are the arguments for and against formalising a system of appeals?   

• How else can accountability be improved?

• Whether the Articles need specifically to take account of the changes to the Commission's remit since 1991 (notably the 2007 extension to include editorial audio-visual material on publications' websites);   

• Any other suggestions from the boards of the PCC and PressBoF or any other interested party for amendments.

Submissions by interested parties may be made in writing by January 25th 2010 and sent to:

Vivien Hepworth
Chairman
Independent Governance Review
Press Complaints Commission
Halton House
20-23 Holborn
London EC1N 2JD

Or sent by e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Further details on the submission process and rules can be found here. 

For readers who have been following and taking note of media representation of Muslims and the process for redress of grievance, or lack thereof, the PCC's review on 'build[ing] public confidence in the administration of independent press regulation' provides an important opportunity to contribute their thoughts on how the PCC can be made a more effective body than it presently is.

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