Policy and skills briefings CfPS produces a series of policy and skills briefings on issues likely to be of importance to scrutiny practitioners.
These can be found below.
Briefing 1: Future challenges for scrutiny (July 2010)
Briefing 2: Total Place/community budgets (July 2010)
Briefing 3: Policing consultation (July 2010)
Briefing 4: Local government and changing executive arrangements (December 2010)
Briefing 5: Resourcing for scrutiny (October 2010)
Briefing 6: Scrutiny and Local Enterprise Partnerships (December 2010)
Briefing 7: Localism Bill and grant allocation (December 2010)
Briefing 8: Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill (February 2011)
Briefing 9: The Big Society (March 2011)
Briefing 10: Shared services and commissioning (May 2011)
Briefing 11: Data and transparency (July 2011)
Briefing 12: Equality impact assessments (September 2011)
Briefing 13: Accountability in education and the role of scrutiny (November 2011)
Briefing 14: Legislative update: the Localism Act, Police Reform Act and Health and Social Care Act (December 2011)
Briefing 15: Accountability at "sub-regional" level (January 2012)
Briefing 16: Housing and tenant scrutiny (February 2012)
Briefing 17: Open public services and public sector audit (tbc - to be published following Government Draft Bill on the subject)
Our skills briefings aim to provide assistance to scrutiny councillors on several key areas. They can be read directly by members or can form the basis of in-house training sessions. These skills briefings were all published in August 2011.
Skills briefing 1: Questioning skills
Skills briefing 2: Chairing and leadership
Skills briefing 3: Running a scrutiny review
Skills briefing 4: Working with partners