Tag: risk and resilience
Bolstering governance
This week (w/c 5 July 2021), we are starting work to highlight the need for councils to support and bolster their commitments to good governance, as we continue to emerge from the pandemic. The pandemic has been exceptionally tough. Restrictions are being removed in the coming weeks but we are far from through this emergency. […]
2021 annual survey: main findings
Our annual survey of overview and scrutiny in local government is published today (7 July). It’s been the first opportunity to fully assess the impact of the pandemic on councils’ scrutiny functions, and to think about the role that scrutiny might play as we set about the task of recovery. Councils’ approaches on, and successes […]
Our governance risk and resilience framework
Last week we, along with our colleagues at Localis, published the governance risk and resilience framework – a set of material designed to assist councillors and officers to understand and act on risks to governance in local areas. You can find the framework and a range of supporting material at www.cfgs.org.uk/governancerisk. When we talk about […]
The governance risk and resilience framework
A note on this document: Following the move to a new website, we have had to reinstate some of these pages linked to in this content, and make small edits to accommodate changes in our website’s architecture. Introduction What is the governance risk and resilience framework? This material is designed to support individual council officers […]