Taking a close-up view of night and the city

摘要

When scrutiny sceptics ask me: 'Where are the good examples of scrutiny? What can scrutiny actually do?', my response is to reach for our latest edition of Successful Scrutiny. Packed with the winners and runners-up from the Centre for Public Scrutiny's annual Good Scrutiny Awards, this provides compelling evidence of the difference that active, engaged, creative overview and scrutiny members and officers are making in local communities up and down the land. As entries are now open for the 2013 Good Scrutiny Awards, it seemed timely to revisit one of last year's winners - Cardiff City Council - to ask what had happened one year on.