Library Monitors

The Centre for Public Scrutiny produces several library monitors a year.  These publications pull together the valuable experience and knowledge from overview and scrutiny committees who have already completed a review on a popular or hot issue and submitted it into our reviews Library.  The publications provide a one-stop-shop resource for scrutineers who are thinking of carrying out a review on the same issue.

Library Monitor 10: Worklessness (free download)

The 10th edition of the CfPS overview and scrutiny review library monitor looks at worklessness and references 11 case study reviews.

20 May 2009

Library Monitor: Childhood Obesity (free download)

The 9th edition of the CfPS scrutiny 'Library Monitor' looks at the subject of childhood obesity and for the first time includes guidance and benchmarking information. If you are planning to undertake a review into childhood obesity this is a must read!

30 January 2009

Library Monitor: CCTV (free download)

This is the eighth edition of the Library Review which provides an holistic review of a theme that is salient to Overview and Scrutiny Committees. This edition provides an overview of 10 reviews undertaken around the relative merits of CCTV.

01 August 2008

Library Monitor: Community Engagement (free download)

The seventh in our series of Library Monitors; this report documents 13 reviews in to community engagement, assessing common features and provides a starting point for those interested in conducting an inquiry into this topic.

01 July 2008