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  • Governance risk and resilience framework: material for those with a leadership responsibility on good governance

    Posted on 16/07/2021 by Kate Grigg

    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. ...

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  • Governance risk and resilience framework: material for councillors and officers in general

    Posted on 16/07/2021 by Kate Grigg

    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. ...

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  • Governance risk and resilience framework: behaviours associated with the seven characteristics

    Posted on 16/07/2021 by Kate Grigg

    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 ...

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  • Member induction: integrating training and development into substantive scrutiny work

    Posted on 05/02/2021 by Ed Hammond

    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 ...

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  • Health Scrutiny and Assurance Conference 2019

    Posted on 19/07/2019 by Fiona Corcoran

    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 ...

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  • Scrutiny and local journalism

    Posted on 11/10/2018 by Fiona Corcoran

    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 ...

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  • #scrutinysuccess

    Posted on 16/08/2018 by Fiona Corcoran

    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 ...

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  • Inaugural CIPFA CfGS Councillors’ Conference

    Posted on 31/07/2018 by Fiona Corcoran

    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 ...

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  • Strategies for Success – Local Government Scrutiny Conference

    Posted on 29/06/2018 by Antonia Okoro

    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 ...

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  • Why your council needs a scrutiny health check

    Posted on 06/03/2018 by Centre for Governance and Scrutiny

    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 ...

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  • Supporting NHS and local government partnerships

    Posted on 08/02/2018 by Nicolay Sorensen

    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 ...

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  • Councillor resources on financial scrutiny

    Posted on 19/12/2017 by Nicolay Sorensen

    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 ...

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  • The future funding outlook for councils

    Posted on 18/12/2017 by Nicolay Sorensen

    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 ...

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  • Moving on with financial scrutiny

    Posted on 18/12/2017 by Nicolay Sorensen

    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 ...

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  • Survey for Kensington and Chelsea residents

    Posted on 28/11/2017 by Nicolay Sorensen

    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 ...

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  • The Governance of Complexity – National Scrutiny Conference

    Posted on 06/11/2017 by Nicolay Sorensen

    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 ...

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  • Take part in our survey on complexity of governance

    Posted on 30/10/2017 by Elena Konopelko

    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 ...

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  • The governance of complexity – four themes to bear in mind

    Posted on 13/09/2017 by Ed Hammond

    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, ...

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  • Scrutiny: the new assurance? A Good Governance Institute discussion paper

    Posted on 12/09/2017 by Tim Gilling

    Today, people who make decisions about public services face a common challenge: how to spend taxpayers’ money effectively and efficiently in ways that meet society’s needs and ensure the best ...

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  • CfGS health scrutiny conference – a great success

    Posted on 28/06/2017 by Nicolay Sorensen

    Anatomy of Accountability - national health scrutiny conference - 27 June 2017 [caption id="attachment_2133" align="alignleft" width="213"] Izzi Seccombe OBE, Conference Chair[/caption] The Centre for Governance and Scrutiny, in partnership with ...

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