12/10/2025

Thousands of Birmingham City Council women workers will today find out how much they will receive from an equal payout offer agreed between unions and the local authority.

12/2/2025

Birmingham City Council was forced to suspend bin collections this week amid an escalation of industrial action to hit the service.

6/6/2025

Almost 400 Birmingham bin workers voted for continued strike action in a recent ballot.

6/10/2024

Councils in England have outspent cash boosts in recent years, leaving core funding 18% lower per person than at the start of the 2010s, think-tank reveals.  

5/1/2024

Birmingham City Council faces a further wait before declaring its equal pay liabilities after auditors' warning.

5/1/2024

Reports the levelling up secretary could send a police chief in to investigate financial mismanagement in Birmingham City Council have resurfaced.

2/22/2024

The situation in Birmingham City Council is worse than commissioners expected, a report to the secretary of state has claimed.

1/10/2024

Cash-strapped Birmingham City Council could raise council tax by 10% if the Government gives its finance plan the go-ahead.

12/4/2023

Birmingham City Council’s problems of governance and accountability are still ‘largely unaddressed’, despite some gains made by the authority.

11/14/2023

Birmingham City Council is poised to reveal a worse-than-expected financial position as it embarks on a savings drive and ‘inevitable’ job cuts, The MJ has learned.

11/9/2023

Commissioners at Birmingham City Council have warned it will struggle to agree a lawful budget next year without further help.

10/12/2023

Birmingham CC is ‘actively exploring’ action against its former director of council management Becky Hellard for her role in the collapse of the council.

10/5/2023

The team tasked with turning round Birmingham City Council has been announced – including a former Labour minister and a serving council chief.

9/21/2023

Birmingham City Council has issued a second section 114 notice as it has failed to come up with a plan to meet its equal pay liabilities.

9/12/2023

Birmingham City Council is braced for a wide-ranging Government intervention to help rescue the authority’s bleak finances, and improve political and officer leadership.

9/5/2023

The UK’s biggest local authority, Birmingham City Council, has issued a section 114 notice in the face of crippling financial problems.

7/26/2023

Birmingham City Council’s mammoth equal pay bill could rise further if it fails to meet a tight deadline to fix the issue.

5/24/2023

Around 23,000 social homes owned by Birmingham City Council do not meet the Decent Homes Standard.

4/25/2023

A Government-imposed governance review of Birmingham City Council has been expanded after massive failures in its accounts IT system emerged.

1/23/2023

A Government minister has admitted to shifting the rules on Levelling Up Fund bids after applications had been submitted.

1/17/2023

Birmingham City Council has been ordered to overhaul its ‘fundamentally flawed’ complaints procedures by the housing ombudsman.

10/2/2020

Aberdeen City Council has been named Local Authority of the Year in The MJ’s first virtual local government awards.

11/26/2019

Birmingham City Council has won a court battle to permanently ban anti-LGBT protests outside a local primary school.

4/2/2019

Birmingham City Council’s intervention team has issued a final, damning report on the crisis-hit council and walked away – despite admitting its job is not complete.

2/5/2019

An inquiry into cultural investment in cities has called for a UK-wide review of the benefits of a tourism tax.

12/16/2015

Birmingham residents have been asked for their input in the drawing up of new ward boundaries.

9/14/2015

Birmingham City Council’s Labour leader has been accused of failing to communicate effectively over plans to transform the beleaguered local authority.