Joe Lepper 16 June 2026

Former councillor rages at lack of accountability for Brum failures

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Senior officers and commissioners at Birmingham City Council should be held to account for their ‘failures' at the under-intervention local authority, according to a former chair of the authority's audit committee.

Fred Grindrod, who stood down as a Labour councillor at this year's local elections after eight years, said there had been political accountability with his party losing control of the authority.

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