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LA to set up a HA to access housing grant
Barking & Dagenham Council was awarded £25.3m in September from the London mayor’s Building Council Homes for Londoners fund. It was to develop these through…
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Government interventions
In June 2018 CfPS convened a roundtable to discuss central Government intervention in local government. We attended this as a CfPS Advisory Board member…
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Accountability, Scrutiny and Local Government
CfPS have just published the annual survey results of scrutiny in Local Government which shows an improving picture. Here is some further analysis in…
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Partnership working
Building Bridges is a report which has been developed by CIH and partners. It provides a guide to better partnership working between local authorities…
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Grenfell – Governance lessons from CfPS
Following the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea recognised that the authority needed to change the way…
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Combined authority scrutiny
This report is a useful summary on where the new mayoral joint authorities have got to, 6 months on, from CFpS 2018-01-05-ca-scrutiny-report Sign up…
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Devolution round up – where are we now?
CFPS have been exploring emerging trends 8 months on from devolution, including the pressure to commercialise, the trend for increased collaboration between councils at…
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CfPS National Scrutiny Conference
CfPS’s national scrutiny conference for local government was held on 6 December and focused on the theme of the governance of complexity. This online report provides an overview…
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CLG report on the state of scrutiny
The Communities and Local Government Select Committee published its report on the current state of scrutiny. Its findings included that scrutiny is often marginalised, under resourced…
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HCA keen on public/private partnerships for new home delivery
Sir Edward Lister, chair of the Homes and Communities Agency was speaking a the launch of a report on public/private partnerships for housebuilding at…
