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Today, people who make decisions about public services face a common challenge: how to spend taxpayers’ money effectively and efficiently in ways that meet...

The Centre for Governance and Scrutiny (CfGS) has been asked to undertake an independent review of governance and scrutiny at the Royal Borough of...

New CfGS research, commissioned by APSE, has been published which highlights that local scrutiny and the way it holds councils to account is still...

New Business Development Manager appointed Councillor Ian Parry has resigned his role as Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance and Corporate Matters at Staffordshire...

CfGS is delighted to confirm the appointment of Dr Catherine Howe, Digital Innovation Director, Capita and Cllr Nick Chard, Kent County Council to the...

Anatomy of Accountability - national health scrutiny conference - 27 June 2017 [caption id="attachment_2133" align="alignleft" width="213"] Izzi Seccombe OBE, Conference Chair[/caption] The Centre for Governance and...

There was another election not so long ago; the one for combined authority mayors. While the Westminster result was a broadly positive one for...

We recently published the results of our scrutiny perceptions survey in the form of an infographic (here). However, given the amount of data we...

Like many scrutiny teams, in January 2016 we were contemplating entering the MJ Award for Excellence in Governance and Scrutiny. A classic trait of...

What is the main reason for the reduction in the number of officer posts dedicated to overview and scrutiny in English councils? Usually, it’s...

That was a surprise. As our minds turn with weary inevitability towards another General Election in the autumn, it’s a good time to see if...

Authority wins four awards - including Excellence in Governance and Scrutiny Impressive efforts in setting up governance of West Midlands Combined Authority recognised At a glittering...

CfGS's performance in 2016/17 Finding the time to step back and review a year’s worth of activity is never easy but it’s important to reflect...

A summary of the findings from CfGS's scrutiny perceptions survey 2017. This graphic summarises some of the top-line findings from this year's survey.  We will share...

Using evidence in scrutiny - new practice guide published What is evidence? How do we get hold of it, and once we’ve done so, what do...

Do you have governance/scrutiny expertise and an entrepreneurial spirit? If so, you could be just the person we're looking for to join our team. Business manager  £39,660 –...

In December 2016, the Health Committee published an interim report on suicide prevention in order to inform the Government's updated suicide prevention strategy. The...

Ed Hammond explores the future health of devolution and what it means for scrutiny. Lord Porter, Chair of the Local Government Association, thinks devo is...

Last month saw the third Notwestminster get-together. I hesitate to describe it as a “conference” (because it isn’t really one of those) or an...

Jacqui McKinlay, CfGS Chief Executive, summarises our submission to the Communities and Local Government (CLG) committee. As you would hope, at the Centre for Governance...

As the deadline looms we explain our latest thinking. Over the past few weeks we have been encouraging people to submit evidence to Communities and...