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With winter comes emergencies and floods. Last year, we published a detailed blogpost setting out some ideas for practitioners – this post is just...

The NHS Clinical Commissioners jointly with CfGS have developed a Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STP) checklist. It is designed for the clinical commissioning group...

NHS England has produced a briefing about the Standard for Accessible Information which CfGS is circulating via its newsletter and networks. The Accessible Information...

The Councillors Commission, launched by the Local Government Research Unit in partnership with the De Montfort University and the Municipal Journal, has produced an...

With media attention so often focussed on NHS services, social care doesn’t always get the coverage it deserves. With councils’ social care budgets under...

CfGS is sponsoring the Excellence in Governance and Scrutiny category at the MJ Awards in 2017. [caption id="attachment_1279" align="alignleft" width="2260"] Durham Council - celebrating their...

In July 2015, the NHS England Board agreed on new standards and service specifications for congenital heart disease services and developed a three tier...

The Centre for Governance and Scrutiny wants to understand the views of local politicians, council employees and other local people about the process of...

Su Turner, CfGS's Director of Children and Young People, considers whether there should be an enhanced role for councils in the future of education scrutiny. Blink...

Have you carried out a scrutiny review of local plans for integrating health and social care services? Would you like the findings to inform a...

Combined authorities – and areas aspiring to establish combined authorities in the near future – are taking the first steps towards introducing the concept...

It’s over five years now since the abolition of Standards for England (formerly known as the Standards Board). My first encounter with it was...

We often talk about scrutiny’s role in handling and mitigating major systemic failure. Our publication “Hiding in plain sight” highlighted the critical responsibility for...

“Now is quite obviously the time to confront – not duck – the big local choices needed to improve health and care across England...

The Public Accounts Committee has been interested in the Government’s policies on English devolution for some time now. Earlier this year, they put out...

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CfGS is looking for a bright, hardworking and experienced individual to join the team as a permanent Research and Policy Co-ordinator, to start in September...

This is the third in a series of blogposts reflecting on how the work of scrutiny might be evaluated. In the first two posts...