Resources

Read the results from the 2021-22 annual overview and scrutiny survey.

A lessons-learned guide, post pandemic in 2022.

An overview of CfGS activity in 2021-22.

A guide rethinking how local decisions get made, including changes that we might need to make in local democracy after the pandemic.

A guide for rethinking how local decisions get made – and the changes that we might need to make in local democracy after the pandemic.

A practical guide for officers and Members to stimulate ideas on public participation, and the role of the public in scrutiny.

A paper to support councillors sitting on combined authority overview and scrutiny committees to understand the pressures and opportunities that CAs face in tackling economic development and recovery.

A publication to raise awareness and increase the involvement of elected members in overview and scrutiny roles, in tackling gambling harm.

A briefing paper on local accountability of NHS bodies, in relation to local authorities’ overview and scrutiny arrangements.

A briefing paper on Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill.

A review of experiences of remote meetings during the pandemic.

A briefing paper on key governance considerations for local and combined authorities arising from the Government's Levelling-up White Paper.

An evaluation of local authority scrutiny functions, using our CfGS Scrutiny Improvement Review methodology.

A publication on Combined Authority governance approaches to scrutiny, post-pandemic.

Briefing on the removal of the power of referral to the Secretary of State, in response to the Public Bill Committee for the Health and Care Bill.

Frontline scrutiny stories in the light of the pandemic.

Results from the 2020-21 annual overview and scrutiny survey.

A guide for councillors on audit committees and scrutiny committees on how member-level activity on audit, and councils’ scrutiny functions, can work more closely.