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Who knew a receipt could teach you as much about accountability as a police scrutiny panel? This blogpost explores how scrutiny skills can be found in the most unexpected places.

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The article makes the case that political disagreement isn't the enemy of good governance – weak governance itself is, using Croydon's financial crisis to show how poor challenge culture and transparency, not politics, caused the breakdown.