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2020 will mark the 20th anniversary of the legislative changes that led to the establishment of the overview and scrutiny function in English and...

We’re hoping to do some work in the coming months on how scrutiny can engage with the climate emergency – engaging with the global challenge to...

Ten questions council scrutiny committees can ask about commissioning, delivery and outcomes from services. This guide aims to help councillors to build their knowledge and...

If you are at an county or unitary council then structural change in the English NHS won’t have been far from your mind for...

The Centre for Governance and Scrutiny, in partnership with the NHS, hosted a well attended and engaging national conference focusing on the most important...

In May 2019, Clive Betts MP (Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee) wrote to CfGS to ask for our thoughts...

On EU Referendum Day three years ago, a conspiracy theory went viral. It was based on the idea that election officials would rub out...

It’s time to come back to a topic beloved of local authority governance enthusiasts – the committee system. A quick primer for those who were...

This guide is intended to provide advice to councils, councillors and officers on the operation of overview and scrutiny; we also hope and expect...

We are recruiting to the post of Delivery Manager who will lead on our event and research programmes, as well as contribute to business development and...

The Counties and Unitaries Scrutiny Network at its meeting earlier this month (June 2019) took information from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on some...

In the run up to our annual health scrutiny and assurance conference being held on 18th July at the King’s Fund, I’ve been reflecting...

For a long time, scrutiny professionals and councillors alike were clear that scrutiny was not a place for individual complaints for local people to be aired....

What is culture? How does political and organisational culture influence governance – and vice versa? And what does this mean for local government? By “culture”, we mean...

A CfGS discussion paper on how our attitudes and behaviours influence how decisions are made - and how the changing way that public services...

On 20th June CfGS will be holding a symposium to discuss the Government’s new statutory guidance on overview and scrutiny. The first general Government guidance...

The statutory guidance on overview and scrutiny in local government has now been published by MHCLG.This guidance has been produced following a commitment that...

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve...

In this publication we hear directly from a range of local authorities about their experiences of scrutiny, providing an opportunity to reflect on the...

With the publication of the NHS Long Term Plan, an expected Social Care Green Paper and the drive towards integrated services through Sustainability and...

One week in February held the publication of two different think tank reports, with two very different visions of the future for the sector...