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TERMS OF USE FOR CFGS.ORG.UK (“THEWEBSITE”) 1. Introduction This is the official Website of Centre for Governance and Scrutiny. It is intended to serve as an...

An introduction to relationships in the "golden triangle" of Monitoring Officer, Chief Finance Officer and Chief Executive.

Camilla de Bernhardt Lane explores ways to navigate Council budgets and pressures associated with finance.

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

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

Headlines from the 2022-23 results of our annual of overview and survey in local government.

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

Arrangements for Health Scrutiny explored by Camilla de Bernhardt Lane and Ed Hammond, with practical tips on how to administer them.

A dive into relationships, behaviours and conduct management, involving members, officers, and the public.

Information about external review and peer-led assurance techniques, associated with the "Corporate Peer Challenge.”

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

CfGS insights on the establishment of the Office for Local Government (Oflog).

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

An outline of how complaints can improve the corporate governance process, with focus on Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.

Government guidance for combined authorities on overview and scrutiny arrangements, alongside a CfGS perspective and guide.

Exploration of how scrutiny is used effectively in quality assurance and who is responsible for this.