10 Questions

Our 10 Questions series gives councillors and newer scrutiny practitioners practical support through ten key questions, follow-up prompts, essential context and a jargon buster. These quick, accessible resources help you prepare for meetings, shape work programmes and hold decision-makers to account.

The series complements our fuller good scrutiny practice guides. Topics reflect councils’ needs, from finance to climate adaptation, resilience, adult social care and safeguarding, informed by our support, events, networks and helpdesk enquiries.

The series is developed with support from the Local Government Association.