Resource type: The Good Scrutiny Digest
Structures, resources and formal powers – A Practice Guide
An outline of the powers and structures that underpin overview and scrutiny in England, covering key areas such as committee resourcing, membership, chairing, and statutory powers.
Planning and Priority Setting – A Practice Guide
An easy to follow guide for setting your work programme, with downloadable infographics.
Relationships for Effective Governance and Scrutiny – A Practice Guide
This practice guide offers practical advice for developing positive working relationships within scrutiny committees, with executives, partners, and the public.
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 […]