Resources

Discover how a newly appointed Governance Officer built scrutiny and governance skills through taking on the challenge of managing Barnet Council’s Youth Homelessness Task and Finish Group.

An outline of the powers and structures that underpin overview and scrutiny in England, covering key areas such as committee resourcing, membership, chairing, and statutory powers.

Read the challenges faced by BCP Council, the initiatives implemented, and the outcomes achieved as the Council sought to enhance its overview and scrutiny functions.

Learn how Newham Council transformed its health and social care scrutiny process to be more inclusive, engaging, and reflective of the community's diverse voices and experiences.

An easy to follow guide for setting your work programme, with downloadable infographics.

Following intervention, Birmingham City Council commissioned a Governance Stabilisation Plan to support its immediate and short-term challenges.

This highlights resident involvement in housing scrutiny committees, by creating co-optee roles and using surveys and focus groups to improve engagement and more inclusive decision-making.

This practice guide offers practical advice for developing positive working relationships within scrutiny committees, with executives, partners, and the public.

Anita Searby - Democratic Lead and Statutory Scrutiny Officer - shares what happened when Cornwall Council undertook a Scrutiny Impact Review.

A governance change journey, moving from committee to cabinet system and spotlighting challenges and opportunities along the way.

This is the fourth edition of a technical paper first published in 2013.

CfGS launches a new thought piece which outlines a system approach to governance and how to do it.

A collaborative workshop with key stakeholder organisations, to design a practical action plan deliver the ten-year Vision & Strategy for Ashdown Forest.

Access our annual scrutiny survey results and discover key findings from 2023-24.

Our latest publication summarising research on how audit and scrutiny can work together to tackle the management and oversight of risk.

Read the results from our annual scrutiny survey in 2022-23.

The latest in our Treasure Your Assets series, designed to advise and guide councils in how to manage and control their financial assets.

Guidance material to support practitioners to better understand how they can act on new arrangements for the scrutiny of local NHS reconfigurations.