Category: News
National Health Scrutiny and Assurance Conference – 14th September 2018
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. With more than 100 attendees the event saw a range of high profile national speakers and an opportunity for delegates from […]
Managing performance and the “thermocline of truth”
Fellow train nerds will have been watching with interest the ongoing debacle that is the year-long delay to the £15 billion Crossrail project in London. This new east-west railway should be opening this December, but the announcement came a few days ago that this would be delayed by a full year. Those working in local […]
CfGS report on scrutiny improvements for Northamptonshire County Council
The CfGS report on scrutiny improvements for Northamptonshire County Council has been published and was approved by the Council meeting at its meeting 20th September 2018. Click here to read the report. CfGS is now working with the county council to support the implementation of our recommendations. For more information please contact Ian Parry on ian.parry@cfgs.org.uk […]
Local Government financial governance and scrutiny – passing the robustness test?
This week will see even more talk of the financial challenges facing councils, if that’s actually possible. Looking at CfGS activities for the week, we’re talking financial resilience at the LGC Summit, it’s the inaugural CIPFA CfGS Councillor Conference and at our national health scrutiny and assurance conference on Friday we expect finance talk to […]
#scrutinysuccess
On 4th December, the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny will host its annual local government scrutiny conference in London where around 150 scrutiny practitioners will gather to focus on this year’s theme of ‘Strategies for Success’. At the event we would like to showcase examples of scrutiny work that you are most proud of. To […]
Government guidance on overview and scrutiny to be published in December
(EDIT, September 2018: We have now published more information about the overview and scrutiny guidance, which you can find here) We are working with MHCLG to produce guidance on the operation of local authority overview and scrutiny, which we expect will be published during December. This guidance follows the Communities and Local Government Select Committee’s […]
Strategies for Success – Local Government Scrutiny Conference
Exploring the big issues in local government scrutiny and governance Join more than 150 colleagues from scrutiny, governance and policy from across local government to discuss the latest issues affecting the sector. This conference sold out in advance in 2017 so we recommend you book early to secure your place and at the best rate – Super […]
Quoracy issues in combined authority scrutiny
What do you do if not enough councillors turn up to a meeting for it to be quorate? Until recently this was perhaps a rather arcane point of procedure. Inquoracy in ordinary council meetings is really very unusual. But the advent of scrutiny at combined authority level has thrown the issue into the spotlight. This […]
Annual scrutiny survey results: scrutiny and cultural change
We have recently published key statistics and a one-page infographics sharing the results of our annual scrutiny survey. This year seemed to be a much more positive one for scrutiny, which is reflected in a number of important indicators going up and an overall hopeful outlook for the future. However, numerous constraints are still present, […]
Local government scrutiny 2017/18 – survey top-line findings
A summary of the findings from CfGS’s scrutiny perceptions survey 2017/18 This graphic summarises some of the top-line findings from this year’s annual survey perception survey. Previous year results are available here. We have already published key statistics from the survey and will share further analysis through a series of blogs in the near future.