Summer Special: Challenges continue at Council House
In the second of our special summer reports, the Chamberlain Files team examine a turbulent 12 months for Birmingham city council. The past year has been one of the most momentous in
‘You’ve all done very well, but must do better’, Clancy tells council chiefs
Birmingham council leader John Clancy has warned the authority’s highest-paid officers that they have got to work together more effectively as a team. He said that while some progress had
Birmingham council is getting better, but some familiar problems remain
The performance of Birmingham city council improved last year with the authority recording a sharp increase in the number of key targets it met. Out of 29 measures in the council
Birmingham council names new communications director
The latest person to be given the task of portraying Birmingham city council in a better light and improving its communications record has been named. Eleri Roberts, head of campaigns
Promises and performance: Clancy’s half year progress report
It will be six months on 1st June since the tectonic plates underpinning Birmingham city council snapped apart with the election of a new Labour leader, John Clancy, who replaced
Ruthless Clancy opts for soft shoe shuffle, but there’s more to come
Chamberlain Files’ chief blogger Paul Dale reflects on a week marked by dramatic cabinet changes at the top of Birmingham city council. Politics is a rough old trade, as John
Improvement panel to stand back, but council warned over ‘regrettable’ slow pace of reform
The Birmingham Independent Improvement Panel is proposing to take a six-month break to give city council leaders space to deliver wide-ranging culture change set out in the Kerslake Review. In
Birmingham Independent Improvement Panel recommends stepping back
The Birmingham Independent Improvement Panel today published a letter to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, reporting on the progress the Council has made in implementing the recommendations of the Kerslake Report.
Response to BIIP letter of 21 March 2016
Joint statement the three group leaders Cllrs John Clancy (Leader of the Council, Lab), Robert Alden (Con) and Jon Hunt (Lib Dem) and Mark Rogers, Chief Executive of Birmingham City Council.
Friends united in joint bid to convince improvement panel its work is done
The fourth public meeting of the Birmingham Independent Improvement Panel was marked by an unprecedented display of chumminess between the city council’s Labour, Tory and Liberal Democrat group leaders. Chamberlain Files