Articles...
Sep 10 2008
Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby has claimed the successes and achievements of Birmingham are not getting the attention they deserve....
Sep 9 2008
Local authorities across Britain have failed to collect more than £745million in council taxes, according to new research....
Sep 5 2008
Financial wizards at Birmingham City Council have invented a new way of accounting which may be useful to us all during these difficult times....
Aug 31 2008
Birmingham City Council’s love-hate relationship with global property experts Cushman and Wakefield will be put to the test again this month when the annual league table of the best UK business cities is published. ...
Jul 16 2008
Details of expected closures and disruptions as a result of industrial action in Birmingham can be found here....
Jul 5 2008
Jobsworths at Birmingham City Council have compiled a fascinating list of websites that local authority staff are banned from using while at work....
Jun 23 2008
The latest stage of Birmingham City Council’s ambitious business transformation programme will save the public purse £186 million over eight years by changing working practices in social services and schools, it has been claimed....
Jun 18 2008
Five years after being written off as one of the worst local authorities in the country, Birmingham City Council is meeting 87 per cent of Government efficiency targets....
Jun 13 2008
Birmingham City Council has taken the unusual step of attempting to recruit seven assistant directors of finance on salaries of up to £85,000 each....
May 14 2008
An argument about the accuracy of statistics has broken out after Birmingham’s ruling Tory-Lib Dem coalition was accused of "massaging" the city council's sickness level figures....
