Author: Fiona Corcoran
Health Scrutiny and Assurance Conference 2019
The Centre for Governance and Scrutiny, in partnership with the NHS, hosted a well attended and engaging national conference focusing on the most important issues facing scrutiny and assurance in health and social care. The event saw a range of high profile national speakers and an opportunity for delegates from local government and the NHS […]
Delivery Manager – secondment opportunity or fixed term contract for 6 months
We are recruiting to the post of Delivery Manager who will lead on our event and research programmes, as well as contribute to business development and consultancy. Ideally you have a good understanding of scrutiny and governance from recent work experience. More importantly you will have excellent research, project and event management skills and an […]
Government Scrutiny Guidance Symposium – 20th June, London – book now
On 20th June CfGS will be holding a symposium to discuss the Government’s new statutory guidance on overview and scrutiny. The first general Government guidance on scrutiny since 2006, it provides a vital opportunity for practitioners to reflect on current practice and to talk to their peers about how scrutiny will move into its third […]
Guest blog by Rob Whiteman, CIPFA CEO: The Future of Financial Resilience in the Public Sector
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama If you were to go by the headlines that have dominated the news for the past decade, the […]
Housing Association Tenants wanted for a new National Tenant Advisory Panel
The National Housing Federation is launching ‘Together with Tenants’, a new national initiative to create a stronger relationship between tenants and housing associations. The creation of a new national Tenant Advisory Panel is an important part of this plan. The Tenant Panel will advise, support and challenge the Federation as they develop and implement plans […]
Training and support for new and returning councillors after elections – how can we help?
After the local elections in May, supporting your new and returning councillors will be a high priority. Elections can mean change – a new council, different political leadership and/or a churn in committee places. While the council settles into its new cycle, new councillors will need support to understand how it all works. For returning […]
Strategies for Success – Local Government Scrutiny Annual Conference 2018, 4th December 2018
The Centre for Governance and Scrutiny hosted a well attended and engaging national conference focusing on the current challenges facing scrutiny and sharing examples of excellent scrutiny work throughout the UK. With almost 200 attendees, the event saw a range of high profile national speakers and an opportunity for delegates from local government to discuss […]
Housing, scrutiny and the Housing Revenue Account (HRA)
We are really pleased to have published an LGA-funded piece of research on the scrutiny of housing. It looked across the piece at social housing, private rental, planning and redevelopment, and homelessness. These four issues come with some policy levers for local politicians – policy levers over which we think scrutiny ought to have oversight. […]
Scrutiny and local journalism
It used to be the case that local journalists were not interested in council meetings, and certainly not scrutiny meetings. Thinking back ten or even five years, the level of press interest in council business was minimal. Major council decisions have still been covered (often idiosyncratically) but the hollowing out of the local press – […]
Scrutiny as a mindset
I had an interesting conversation on Twitter (inevitably) recently which got me to thinking about how we conceive of scrutiny – what it’s for and how we think about it. Forgive me for the navel-gazing, but we are engaged in helping the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) as they draft the new […]