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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
New report by CfGS for the Scottish Commission for Learning Disabilities (SCLD) SCLD and CfGS have today published Using scrutiny to drive outcomes: Improving quality of life for people with learning ...
Jaqui McKinlay on why now is the time to shout about scrutiny successes The Communities and Local Government Committee (CLG) inquiry into local government overview and scrutiny (O&S) is certainly ...
The CfGS is continuing to look into various issues relating to scrutiny. We have recently done a survey of scrutiny perceptions, and are currently working on estimating the impact of scrutiny across England, ...
CfGS has published a guide on risk and resilience, which we have written to be of use to scrutiny councillors and the officers who support them. Risk is a ...
More information to follow on CfGS's Conference - Democracy, governance and the truth. The conference will be on 1st December 2016 at the Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury, London....