Topic: The Good Scrutiny Digest
In this section, you will find a selection of practice guides as part of an overall good scrutiny digest for local government.
Browse the wide-ranging content, which all contain tools, templates and top tips for good scrutiny practice and statutory guidance.
Please share your thoughts and talk to us about these guides and materials. info@cfgs.org.uk
Contents
The Good Scrutiny Guide 2019
Gathering and Evaluating Evidence
Demonstrating Impact
Running Effective Reviews
Structures, resources and formal powers
Planning and Priority Setting
Relationships for Effective Governance and Scrutiny
Financial scrutiny practice guide
Published in partnership with CIPFA. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on council finances, uncertainty regarding the delayed fair funding review and future operations for social care – on top of a decade of progressively more significant financial constraints – has placed local government in a hugely challenging position. For the foreseeable future, council budgeting […]
Transport governance in combined authorities
This paper is intended to support those involved in strategic, member-led transport governance in a (mayoral) combined authority, specifically those which previously had integrated transport authorities. This research has been developed with the Combined Authorities Governance Network (CAGN) – a network set-up by the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny with LGA funding that brings together […]
Commercialisation and scrutiny – a practical guide for councillors
Our commercialisation and scrutiny guide is a practical tool for councillors who are involved in scrutiny and wish to find out more about scrutiny can become involved or more involved in the increasing commercialisation of council services.
Taking Scrutiny Seriously
Taking Scrutiny Seriously is a series of tools to help council CEOs and senior statutory officers improve the profile and impact of their council scrutiny function so that it has the same ‘parity of esteem’ as other areas within the council.
The Good Scrutiny Guide
This guide is intended to provide advice to councils, councillors and officers on the operation of overview and scrutiny; we also hope and expect that it will be of use to other stakeholders, including the public. It is written to complement the Government’s statutory scrutiny guidance for councils and combined authorities (published May 2019). Councils […]
Delivering effective governance and accountability for integrated health and care
A new explainer for the NHS and local authorities outlines possible solutions for the governance and accountability challenges brought by the move to integrated health and care. NHS organisations and local authorities are already working closely together to join up approaches to delivery and this will become even more important as the journey towards more […]
Risk and commercialisation: a guide for scrutiny councillors
This report by APSE (the Association for Public Service Excellence) and the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny discusses the ways in which scrutiny can engage with issues arising from commercial activity. The report explores the current landscape around commercialisation, and provides a toolkit and guide for councils to help build their own bespoke, locally-relevant governance […]
10 Questions for Effective Scrutiny of Local Council Strategies to Prevent or Reduce Suicide
Providing a lifeline: Effective scrutiny of local strategies to prevent or reduce suicide. This publication looks at effective scrutiny of local strategies to prevent or reduce suicide, focusing on context and relevance for scrutiny, quality improvement and the role of scrutiny and provides 10 questions for scrutiny committees to ask.