The Democracy Committee

The role of the Democracy Committee is not to run the Union's democratic system (that being the responsibility of various individual Officers and of the Elections Group) but rather to provide oversight and review of both the system itself and of the work of those running the system. The importance to the Union of understanding and reflecting the needs and views of its membership makes this a vital role.

As one of the Union's Standing Committees, the responsibilities of the Democracy Committee are:

• to co-ordinate the Union's democratic processes in the long term
• to monitor the implementation of policy with respect to the democratic processes of the Union
• to monitor (but not order) the work of the Elections Group
• to regularly review the appendices to the Union's Constitution and the Union's regulations in order to ensure consistency with the Union's aims and policies
• to present suggested changes to the appendices of the Union's Constitution to Union Council
• to present suggested changes to the Union's regulations to the Executive Committee
• to make Officers aware of their remits and mandates

The voting members of the committee are:

• An elected chair (see Union Officers)
• The Finance, Democracy and Strategy Officer (see Union Officers)
• The Union President (see Union Officers)
• Four members elected by Union Council

Meetings are also normally attended by the Chair of the Elections Group and the Chair and Deputy Chair of Union Council

Information about the current work of this committee can be found on it's website.