A national charity, expert in all aspects of governance and scrutiny, enabling more accountable and transparent decision making

Big investment, long timescales, complex partnerships. Bring your curiosity and imagination to find out how scrutiny can cut through and make a real difference to economic development.

Governing improvement and making oversight count, so that councils test whether real change is happening and not just whether actions are complete. Take part in this event to learn together and share experiences of getting oversight of improvement right.

CfGS shares a few thoughts about the Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) pause and review announced earlier in the month.

Commercial activities bring real opportunities for councils, but scrutinising them properly means knowing where to push and where commercial confidentiality has to hold.