Talk:Overview and Scrutiny

I orginally said 'bureaucrats' because council 'officers' are - in many jurisdictions - specific elected officers of the council so the sentence could cause confusion outside the UK. Changed to 'employees' for a second go at a neutral and unconfusing term. 'staff' might also be an option.

Further details on how Alternative Arrangements councils operate O&S would be welcome - they are still required to have a committee.

I used to be a Scrutiny Officer and I'd be happy to contribute to this section as time allows. Dalliance 18:56, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

2nd paragraph - "...Overview and Scrutiny Committee to meet the rules on proportionality defined..." - proportionality referring to Proportional representation or Proportionality (political maxim)? Onionmon 21:04, 27 September 2006 (UTC) or Proportional justice? Onionmon 21:17, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

scrutiny requirements
Re the 2nd para - it is definitely a requirement to have a scrutiny committee, but is it really a requirement for all non-executive members to be part of it? Are we sure about this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JJardine (talk • contribs) 16:12, 7 December 2006 (UTC).

2010 changes
I have updated the page to reflect changes since 2006 and also added some references. It does still need some work though. Edhammond2 (talk) 11:28, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

'The Government is expected to introduce a new Bill in late November 2010'. Should this statement be updated? 82.31.133.165 (talk) 16:15, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Have now done this. Will keep this on my watchlist. Edhammond2 (talk) 11:45, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

On future changes, should point out that I work for the Centre for Public Scrutiny, a body with a specific remit to support O&S in local government, and so have self-cited quite a bit. That said, we are basically the only organisation in the UK doing serious research on overview and scrutiny, and I hope that the content doesn't come across as POV. I'll wait for guidance from others on this before making any additional changes Edhammond2 (talk) 22:04, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Have today made some quite significant changes, tidying up the whole article, bringing it up to date and including more detail about other UK jurisdictions. I'm still an employee of the CfPS. Edhammond2 (talk) 15:21, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

2020 changes
Since the last major change in 2014 things have obviously moved on, and I've taken the opportunity to update and reorder the page to reflect those changes and to remove and refresh some dead links. I've removed some duplication on scrutiny's powers and added content relating to the 2019 statutory scrutiny guidance in England, as well as adding some detail on Wales and scrutiny of combined authorities in England. Edhammond2 (talk) 23:36, 1 January 2020 (UTC)