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Initial thinking on the inquiry and how you can get involved We’re delighted that the Communities and Local Government (CLG) Select Committee has decided to conduct an...

We hope that 2017 proves less interesting than 2016. Particularly in the weeks following the referendum, I seemed to get very little work done,...

The Communities and Local Government Select Committee has launched a national inquiry into the powers, functions, and effectiveness of local authority scrutiny arrangements and...

Edelman, a global communication firm which measures trust levels across the world, stated that in 2017 trust is in crisis. Data from 28 countries suggests that people...

The Centre for Governance and Scrutiny is interested in understanding the views of local politicians, council employees and other local people on scrutiny of...

The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC), before Christmas, put out the latest in a series of reports which have been generally unconvinced of the...

We’re publishing the draft of a new self-evaluation framework for comment and criticism. You can find it here .  Back in 2006 we produced the first...

After what seems like a very long wait, Government has now published a draft of the Order which sets out more detail for combined...

Last week, we published our latest piece of research on devolution governance: "Governance and devolution: charting the way". Despite the uncertainty around the direction...

With winter comes emergencies and floods. Last year, we published a detailed blogpost setting out some ideas for practitioners – this post is just...

The NHS Clinical Commissioners jointly with CfGS have developed a Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STP) checklist. It is designed for the clinical commissioning group...

NHS England has produced a briefing about the Standard for Accessible Information which CfGS is circulating via its newsletter and networks. The Accessible Information...

The Councillors Commission, launched by the Local Government Research Unit in partnership with the De Montfort University and the Municipal Journal, has produced an...

With media attention so often focussed on NHS services, social care doesn’t always get the coverage it deserves. With councils’ social care budgets under...

CfGS is sponsoring the Excellence in Governance and Scrutiny category at the MJ Awards in 2017. [caption id="attachment_1279" align="alignleft" width="2260"] Durham Council - celebrating their...

In July 2015, the NHS England Board agreed on new standards and service specifications for congenital heart disease services and developed a three tier...

The Centre for Governance and Scrutiny wants to understand the views of local politicians, council employees and other local people about the process of...

Su Turner, CfGS's Director of Children and Young People, considers whether there should be an enhanced role for councils in the future of education scrutiny. Blink...