Category: News
Election 2026 special: Managing change
With the 2026 elections set to reshape local power, this blog explores how councils can navigate uncertainty and respond effectively to sudden political change.
Getting ahead of the local election results
Read this to stay one step ahead of local election results – understand what’s changing, what it means for your council, and how to respond with confidence
Setting up the Scrutiny Review Library: what we learned
Find out more about some of the key lessons we learned about what works – and what doesn’t – when building a shared resource to support better, more connected scrutiny across the sector
CfGS announces team changes and welcomes new senior appointments
We are welcoming two new staff and saying goodbye to Ed and Camilla
Photo gallery
Take a peak at all the action from our conference, held at Millennium Point, Birmingham for the first time
Governance and 25 years of scrutiny
This piece, written by Ed Hammond, was originally published by the LGC, explains what we can learn from the moment that executive and scrutiny were separated in English and Welsh local authority governance
Conference 2026 speakers
Speaker bios as for the annual CfGS conference in March
Why we’re working together to help councils make the most of LGR
Today our three organisations – Anthony Collins, the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny (CfGS) and Collaborate CIC – are announcing an informal partnership to support councils on their road to local government reorganisation (LGR)
Celebrating the launch of Elevate
This week marks the official launch of Elevate, a groundbreaking new pilot programme designed to build scrutiny leadership skills, knowledge and confidence among officers from across the country