Archive for the ‘General Overview & Scrutiny’ Category.
Last week, to mark European Local Democracy Week, we were tweeting the Overview and Scrutiny Annual Report for 2011/12. If you want to see the full report you can find it here. If you are not a tweeter then don’t worry – all it boils down to is that we have summarised the annual report in to ten short statements [...]
This post is us doing our bit for European Local Democracy Week which starts today. We wanted to mark it because we think that local government scrutiny makes an important contribution to local democracy. First and foremost scrutiny can make a real difference to people by working to improve policies and services. To show this we will [...]
OK, so it might not be the most exciting thing you have ever read but I was working on the stats for our Annual Report 2010-11 and thought I might as well share them. Whilst we don’t want to go overboard on this, it is important to be able to show the level of activity [...]
Research is an important part of what scrutiny does and, as a team, it is a core part of our role. At a time when research resources within local councils are under pressure, research is one of the ways in which a scrutiny function can add important value. If the right topics are chosen scrutiny can [...]
For the last couple of weeks we have had Eve McFadzean, an undergraduate from Cardiff University Politics Department, on placement with us. This was our second politics student placement for the year – the first being Andrew Jenkins. Both placements have been a real pleasure to host and I think that there has been a real benefit [...]
