Resources

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.

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 2023-23.

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 2023-23.

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.

This is a guide to the new reconfiguration arrangements, issued to complement statutory guidance issued by Government on 9 January 2024.

A guide to financial scrutiny, 2023.

A publication on Access to Information for elected members.

Governance change example, using a bespoke approach to scrutiny at combined authority level.

A comprehensive scrutiny report of poverty-related issues in South Tyneside, identifying challenges, exploring solutions, and making recommendations to improve the well-being of residents.

A report which showcases the wide-scale application of four principles of effective scrutiny across the Borough Council.