The latest scrutiny and governance news from across the sector.
As I begin my second day in the role of Chief Executive at CfGS, I look forward to busy and exciting times ahead. During a period when organisations across all ...
Peers considering the Health and Care Bill in the House of Lords reached amendments relating to overview and scrutiny on Wednesday 26 January. These amendments sought to impose on the ...
Lord Kerslake, Chair of CfGS, has announced Andy Fry OBE as the new Chief Executive of the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny. Andy is a former Chief Executive of Royal ...
Jacqui McKinlay is set to step down as Chief Executive of the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny after six years leading the organisation. She is taking up a new role ...
The Health and Care Bill is now making its way through Parliament. We are at the stage in the Commons where the real meat of scrutiny – committee stage. At ...
Please note: this article was originally published on the Local Government Chronicle website here. Most councils are in a good place for reviewing and implementing improvements that will help ...
In 2018, CfGS carried out its first evaluations of local authority scrutiny functions using a new method, and under a new title. We brought together our wealth of research, policy ...
We are currently drawing together evidence to support some guidance for councils on how they can use scrutiny to look back on their experiences during the pandemic – as well ...
Perhaps surprisingly, the Prime Minister’s speech on “levelling up” last week provided less, rather than more, certainty about what the Government flagpole policy agenda actually means for local councils and ...
This week (w/c 5 July 2021), we are starting work to highlight the need for councils to support and bolster their commitments to good governance, as we continue to emerge ...
Our annual survey of overview and scrutiny in local government is published today (7 July). It’s been the first opportunity to fully assess the impact of the pandemic on councils’ ...
Last week we held a webinar for councillors and officers on the subject of the forthcoming Health and Care Bill. We were joined by colleagues in the Bill team at ...
Over the past year, organisations across all sectors have experienced new complexities in shifting to a different operating environment and unparalleled challenges that have inevitably tested organisational culture and governance. ...
An independently chaired panel of customer representatives has published its first annual report on the performance of housing provider Mears - you can read the report here. The Scrutiny Board ...
An update on our work with ENGIE. ENGIE launched their Responsible Business Charter in 2018 which included commitments in the four areas of: fair business growth, transparency and accountability, being ...
We are looking for councils to feature in our forthcoming Scrutiny Frontiers 2020-21 publication, highlighting how you have overcome the challenges posed by the pandemic in local government over the ...
Our annual scrutiny survey has opened today, and we have a message from our Chief Executive 2020 marked the 20th anniversary since legislation was passed for the overview and ...
In the latest in our series from scrutiny practitioners reflecting on their experiences during the pandemic, Merton's scrutiny team provide some insights on how they have changed the way they ...
More councils are starting to experiment with different forms of decision-making. The emergence of mutual aid networks at the outset of the pandemics – agile, highly local, groups of neighbours ...
In a previous post, we set out four possible scenarios for how governance could develop as we continue to navigate the pandemic. Since then, we have been successful in ...
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