News & events

Lord Kerslake, Chair of CfGS, has announced Andy Fry OBE as the new Chief Executive of the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny. Andy is a...

We’ve produced material on the climate emergency before – we published a blog on how scrutiny could approach the issue in 2019, and in...

Jacqui McKinlay is set to step down as Chief Executive of the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny after six years leading the organisation. She...

On 1 October, the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee of the House of Commons published its long-awaited report on the progress of...

The recently published ‘Annual Review of Adult Social Care complaints 2020/21’ by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman pulls together the national picture...

The Health and Care Bill is now making its way through Parliament. We are at the stage in the Commons where the real meat...

Please note: this article was originally published on the Local Government Chronicle website here. Most councils are in a good place for reviewing and implementing...

In this guest blog, Mark Sandford, a senior research analyst at the House of Commons Library, delves into the implications for local accountability through...

In this guest blog, Dr Dave McKenna, a CfGS associate and local government practitioner, draws together his insights on how to get the balance...

In this guest blog Cllr Bryony Rudkin, deputy leader at Ipswich Borough Council, reflects on the importance of behaviours in how local councillors enact...

In this guest blog Mark Sandford, senior research analyst at the House of Commons Library, takes a comparative look at scrutiny on a national...

In 2018, CfGS carried out its first evaluations of local authority scrutiny functions using a new method, and under a new title. We brought...

We are currently drawing together evidence to support some guidance for councils on how they can use scrutiny to look back on their experiences...

Perhaps surprisingly, the Prime Minister’s speech on “levelling up” last week provided less, rather than more, certainty about what the Government flagpole policy agenda...

Happening parallel with England’s run of success at the Euros (and ongoing covid rolling news), the introduction into the Commons of the long-awaited Health...

This week (w/c 5 July 2021), we are starting work to highlight the need for councils to support and bolster their commitments to good...

Our annual survey of overview and scrutiny in local government is published today (7 July). It’s been the first opportunity to fully assess the...

New municipal year, new financial year – same pressures. We move into quarter 2 of 2021/22 still struggling to shake off the pandemic, and...