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HOW WATCH FOLLOWS GOVERNMENT

POWER & SCRUTINY

A public map of decision-makers, money-holders and formal scrutineers across the four WATCH remits.

WATCH'S DIRECTION: follow power, public money, decisions, promises and outcomes — not personalities. These pages map who can decide, who controls money and who is supposed to challenge them.
MAP 1

POWER MAP

Who can actually make or shape decisions across Adur, West Sussex, the Sussex strategic authority and Parliament.

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MAP 2

MONEY MAP

Follow budgets and projects from political ownership to statutory finance officers, delivery officers and scrutiny.

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MAP 3

SCRUTINY MAP

Who is formally supposed to challenge executive decisions, budgets and performance — and how residents can use those routes.

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WATCH RANKING

TOP 20 SCRUTINY PRIORITIES

A transparent ranking based on the power of the office, public-money exposure, public impact and accountability gap.

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ACCOUNTABILITY OF ACCOUNTABILITY

SCRUTINISE THE SCRUTINEERS

Scrutiny bodies should be judged on attendance, questions, recommendations, call-ins, follow-through and measurable outcomes.

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METHOD

THE ACCOUNTABILITY CHAIN

Every serious WATCH investigation should answer the same six questions.

Who proposed it? Who approved it? Who controls the money? Who delivered it? Who scrutinised it? What happened?