Take a look at our latest featured Case Study highlighting the transformative journey of the Overview & Scrutiny function at Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority. This was submitted by Jodie ...
The full governance risk and resilience framework is available on a separate page here. We have also divided additional material into two parts depending on your role within the council. ...
The full governance risk and resilience framework is available on a separate page here. We have also divided additional material into two parts depending on your role within the council. ...
Behaviours associated with the seven characteristics The seven characteristics: summary Principal statutory officers, other senior officers and leading councillors (as well as other councillors and officers) will be able to ...
At the moment, with Government having confirmed that elections will be going ahead, officers will be hard at work thinking about the design of member induction activity following the election ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Join CIPFA and the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny at the House of Commons on 13 September for our inaugural councillors’ conference. Council finances are at the top of everyone’s ...
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 ...
Weak scrutiny can lead to failure, strong scrutiny supports success. “I think that where scrutiny is done properly in local authorities that have the right culture, and where scrutiny is ...
Events to build links between the NHS and local government - free to attend Improving understanding of the NHS and local government Partnerships between the NHS and local government are ...
Dr Catherine Howe is the Chair of the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny and is an expert in digital innovation, focusing on the area of digital democracy and social change. ...
As councils are now in the process of producing their 2018/19 budgets and Treasury Management Strategies, we want to outline some of the publications that might help scrutineers in their ...
The announcement of the local government financial settlement (and with it a sense of the future funding outlook for councils) in December is usually accompanied by heavy-handed seasonal puns. Will ...
Back in 2014, in partnership with Grant Thornton, we produced a detailed piece of guidance for councils in Wales on financial scrutiny called “Raising the stakes”. Although this work was ...
Residents' survey on the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council decision making Overview The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council has commissioned an independent review to look at how ...
Confirmed speakers include: Marcus Jones MP, Local Government Minister | Clive Betts MP, Chair, Communities and Local Government Select Committee | Dame Louise Casey | Bronwen Maddox, Chief Executive, Institute for ...
More complex governance arrangements are now common place in local government including external delivery vehicles, arms-length management organisations, local partnerships, and internal commissioning and delivery arrangements. They can bring challenges ...
Life’s complicated. So are public services. Once upon a time, we tell ourselves, things were simpler. Councils, organised into easy-to-understand departments, delivered things – things like education, housing, social services, ...