Sector: Local Gov
Structures, resources and formal powers – A Practice Guide
An outline of the powers and structures that underpin overview and scrutiny in England, covering key areas such as committee resourcing, membership, chairing, and statutory powers.
Regional Public Accounts Committees
This is the fourth edition of a technical paper first published in 2013.
Annual Survey of Overview and Scrutiny – Results Report 2023-24
Access our annual scrutiny survey results and discover key findings from 2023-24.
Audit, Scrutiny and Risk
Our latest publication summarising research on how audit and scrutiny can work together to tackle the management and oversight of risk.
Annual Survey of Overview and Scrutiny – Results Report 2022-23
Read the results from our annual scrutiny survey in 2022-23.
Treasure Your Assets
The latest in our Treasure Your Assets series, designed to advise and guide councils in how to manage and control their financial assets.
Health scrutiny and the new reconfiguration arrangements
Guidance material to support practitioners to better understand how they can act on new arrangements for the scrutiny of local NHS reconfigurations.
Health scrutiny and the new reconfiguration arrangements
This is a guide to the new reconfiguration arrangements, issued to complement statutory guidance issued by Government on 9 January 2024.
Financial scrutiny – a guide for members
A guide to financial scrutiny, 2023.
Access to information for elected members
A publication on Access to Information for elected members.