To pick or not to pick: A question of work planning

Posted on 02/11/2018 by Stefan Robinson | scrutiny priorities, scrutiny work planning

Last month the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny (CfGS) was consulting on proposals for new statutory guidance on overview and scrutiny in local government. The eagerly awaited Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) text is due to be published in December 2018, and local authorities are required to ‘have regard to’ it’s content. The guidance is being developed following a Select Committee review into the operation of local authority overview and scrutiny. One area where practitioners have called for more guidance, and where practice varies significantly, relates to the committee work plan. “Better work programmes tend to ...