Governance examinations

Our role is to ensure council’s governance and operating procedures are compliant with the Act and to avoid breaches of the Act.

Governance is the system which controls and operates a council and how its people are held to account.

Good governance gives the community confidence that decisions are being made by their council in a transparent and accountable way, and in the community’s best interests.

We:

  • encourage better governance in councils
  • review councils’ governance procedures.

Sometimes we do governance examinations on one specific council. We can also do governance examinations across a number of councils looking at a particular topic.

We identify what we will examine during council visits, through our investigations or after receiving information from councils or the public.

Some of our recent governance examinations include:

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Read more reports on our governance examinations.

Read case studies of our governance examinations.

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