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.