CfGS is committed to developing and promoting leading policy and practice in governance and scrutiny.
This publication is part of a Centre for Governance and Scrutiny (CfGS) project in partnership with the Gambling Commission to …
This briefing focuses on accountability, specifically the local accountability of NHS bodies to local authorities’ overview and scrutiny arrangements. In …
The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill was introduced into the House of Commons on 17th May 2022. This briefing provides …
This publication aims to review experiences of remote meetings during the pandemic – in particular, impacts on behaviours – and …
A briefing setting out the key governance considerations for local and combined authorities arising from the Government’s Levelling-up White Paper. …
In 2018, CfGS carried out its first evaluations of local authority scrutiny functions using a new method, and under a …
How can combined authorities (CAs) alter their approach to governance for the post-pandemic recovery? Which partners will need to be …
We have sent Parliamentarians sitting of the Public Bill Committee for the Health and Care Bill a briefing. This briefing …
A summary of the CfGS governance risk and resilience framework. You can find full details on the framework at www.cfgs.org.uk/governancerisk …
This is a document setting out the “seven characteristics” used to support the CfGS governance risk and resilience framework. You …
Publications exploring the governance and scrutiny challenges which form part of new developments such as devolution, sustainability and transformation plans in health or new delivery vehicles. These are free to access, and some are funded by our partners including the Local Government Association.
Thought-leadership and policy development work which seeks to learn from our delivery experience or provide insight into new and potential challenges facing leaders and the governance community. This often takes the form of roundtables, blogs and think pieces.
Organising idea exchanges, best practice and support events including conferences, regional seminars and gatherings for specific groups of practitioners. These are promoted via our newsletter and you can sign-up here.
Running campaigns when we think something needs highlighting or changing. Often this involves advocating the benefits of transparency and accountability – an example is changes we promoted to local government scrutiny to coincide with the Communities and Local Government Select Committee Inquiry. You can read about our submission to the inquiry here.
Research is an area where CfGS is looking to increase activity. The aim is to have a good balance between work we fund from income generation and projects funded via grants and other research funding mechanisms.
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