Corporate Governance

DELIVERING GOOD GOVERNANCE IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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each local authority operates through a governance framework. it is an interrelated system that brings together an underlying set of legislative requirements, governance principles and management processes. Traditionally, local government has conformed in whole or in part and in many different ways to the principles of good governance and has had a sound base on which to build. There has been a strong regulatory framework in existence and robust arrangements for monitoring and review.
1.2 in 2001, CipFA in conjunction with SoLACe and with support from key organisations in local government responded to the need to draw together the principles identified by Cadbury, nolan and, in england, the former Department of the environment, Transport and the regions (DeTr) into a single framework of good governance for use in local government and published Corporate Governance in Local Government – A Keystone for Community Governance: Framework. The Framework recommended that local authorities review their existing governance arrangements against a number of key principles and report annually on their effectiveness in practice. Through the development of this Framework authorities were encouraged to meet the standards of the best.

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Series Title

DELIVERING GOOD GOVERNANCE IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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Publisher

: CIPFA., 2007

Collation

1-52

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978 1 84508 117 1

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NONE

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Edition

1st Edtion

Subject(s)

Governance

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