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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...

Democracy, governance and the truth Understanding the past - improving the futureA national conference for local governmentThursday 1st December 2016Holiday Inn, London, Bloomsbury, WC1N 1HTPrices...

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...

A #notwestminster and CfGS initiativeWhat is this?#notwestminster brings (or bring, if you consider them to be a plural) people together to create and share...

CfGS is at the LGA Conference in Bournemouth There is no doubt we are living through some of the most dramatic political times of a...

The referendum result has shifted the ground under what are already a tough set of challenges faced by NHS and social care managers. The...

 Following the referendum result there’s a lot of chatter about the likely impact of the decision on local government and the devolution agenda.If this...

This is the second of three blogposts about scrutiny’s impact. In the first post of this series, I introduced two recent pieces of research...

Durham County Council pick up Excellence in Governance and Scrutiny MJ AwardAt an exciting evening, celebrating some of the great achievements of Local Government, Durham...

This is the first of three blogposts about scrutiny’s impact and how scrutiny might be improved. It anticipates the publication by us at the...