Topic: Subject-specific scrutiny best practice
Over the years CfGS has been the source of a significant amount of practical guidance for councils in how their scrutiny functions can understand, address and make recommendations on specific policy issues. Ranging from the cost of living crisis to cybersecurity, this best practice guidance (and a number of associated case studies) provides advice on a broad range of common topics.
Cost-of-Living Information Digest
An information digest for local authorities undertaking, or planning to undertake, research on the cost-of-living crisis.
Scrutiny and work programming
A summary of material on scrutiny work programming, 2022.
Scrutiny and the cost of living
Although the cost of living crisis is dominating political conversation this week – especially in light of the rise of the energy price cap – for us in local government this is a crisis that has been going on for years now. For more than a decade councils have had to grapple with the challenges […]
Annual Survey of Overview and Scrutiny – Results Report 2021-22
Read the results from the 2021-22 annual overview and scrutiny survey.
The cost of living crisis and scrutiny
For the first time on record, temperatures in the UK exceeded 40°C, though this isn’t the only record broken this year; inflation hit a new 40 year high, the energy price cap is the highest it’s ever been and as we head towards the autumn, the cost-of-living crisis is set to have a devastating impact […]
10 questions to ask if you are scrutinising gambling harm
A publication to raise awareness and increase the involvement of elected members in overview and scrutiny roles, in tackling gambling harm.
Scrutiny Improvement Reviews – main themes & findings
An evaluation of local authority scrutiny functions, using our CfGS Scrutiny Improvement Review methodology.
Council action on the climate emergency
We’ve produced material on the climate emergency before – we published a blog on how scrutiny could approach the issue in 2019, and in July last year we published a longer guide setting out 10 questions to ask if you’re scrutinising your council’s action on the issue. With COP26 drawing to a close in Glasgow […]
Scrutiny Frontiers 2020/21: experiences from the frontline
Frontline scrutiny stories in the light of the pandemic.
Annual Survey of Overview and Scrutiny – Results Report 2020-21
Results from the 2020-21 annual overview and scrutiny survey.