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Headline findings of the 2023 CfGS annual survey of overview and scrutiny in local government.

Cross-party Homelessness Task and Finish Working Group, launched to examine the impact of any increase in homelessness in Exeter as a result of benefit cuts and increases in the cost of living.

This is a roundtable event to explore the changes to Inspecting local authority children’s services (ILACS) and how Scrutiny can meaningfully add value to...

First thoughts on the English Devolution Accountability Framework.

We are moving towards financial year-end here at CfGS – a busy time, when we are also tying off a lot of our 2022/23...

How CfGS can help support transition in times of elections and change.

Discussion on scrutiny in committee system authorities; how to make it work and associated challenges to consider.

Interrogation of Local Public Accounts Committees, and their purpose.

2023 is going to be an exciting year for CfGS. Firstly, we’ve just opened bookings for our Annual Conference, now back in its old timeslot...

Chief executive’s update: W/C 25 November 2022 With apologies for the slight delay since I last wrote to update you on CfGS’s work, here’s some...

Chief executive’s update: W/C 25 November 2022 With apologies for the slight delay since I last wrote to update you on CfGS’s work, here’s some...

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion By Annette Aiken & Natalie Rotherham Recent worldwide events and campaigns have shone a light onto the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and...

Although the cost of living crisis is dominating political conversation this week – especially in light of the rise of the energy price cap...

With national politics restarting this week after the Queen’s funeral, there is plenty in the new PM’s inbox – and plenty for those of...

[UPDATE: the guide referred to in this blog was published in late 2022 and can be found here]. A bit later in the autumn we...

Before the pandemic, we and the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) embarked on a project looking at the way that councils (and...

A few weeks ago we published a paper exploring how scrutiny in local authorities can play an active part in helping councils to learn...

In March last year (2021) we published the “Governance risk and resilience” framework – a set of material designed to support people working in...