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Read all the latest news in scrutiny.
Due to the success of our Officer Development Day in June 2008, the CfPS will be repeating the core competency development workshops that were held at our Annual Conference this year.
We are inviting English local authorities with the power to review health services under NHS Act 2006 to bid for up to £10,000 for innovative scrutiny reviews.
Latest entries in the library include:
» Hackney: green spaces
» North Lincs: small businesses
» Warwickshire: demand for school meals
» Lancaster: secondary education
» Havering: new diploma scheme
Reviews from your authority can be submitted via our simple form. You can also search for reports by issue, region, authority, year, type of organisation, and keyword.
Treasure your Assets
A timely publication, written by industry experts, to help local councillors and non-executive directors of other public bodies to scrutinise the strategy and performance of local treasury management.
Successful Scrutiny 2008
The CfPS publishes 12 case studies of best practice scrutiny taken from the Good Scrutiny Awards 2008 held at the Annual Conference in June 2008.
Information on the CfPS health scrutiny support programme, including:
» Get Ready for LINks!
» latest publications
» Action learning programme
» Expert advisory team
» Health scrutiny helpdesk
Anatomy of Accountability - How the NHS Answers to the People is a new policy paper about the accountability framework for health
The Scrutiny Champions' Network supports the thousands of people involved in scrutiny across the public sector. You can register to receive regular information from CfPS. Other services include:
» monthly bulletins
» discussions forum
» self-evaluation framework
» Welsh champions network
» annual survey 2007
