{"id":1029893,"date":"2026-06-16T09:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1029893\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:38:17","slug":"former-councillor-rages-at-lack-of-accountability-for-brum-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1029893\/","title":{"rendered":"Former councillor rages at lack of accountability for Brum failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/Image\/Former-councillor-rages-at-lack-of-accountability-for-Brum-failures\/shutterstock_249222939711\/jpg\" alt=\"Former councillor rages at lack of accountability for Brum failures image\" class=\"img-responsive img-full\"\/>\u00a9 Lee Charlie \/ Shutterstock.com.<br \/>\n        Senior officers and commissioners at Birmingham City Council should be held to account for their \u2018failures&#8217; at the under-intervention local authority, according to a former chair of the authority&#8217;s audit committee.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Grindrod, who stood down as a Labour councillor at this year&#8217;s local elections after eight years, said there had been political accountability with his party losing control of the authority.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themj.co.uk\/former-councillor-rages-lack-accountability-brum-failures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The MJ<\/a> (\u00a3) to continue reading.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/form\/bulletin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781602697_406_LocalGov banner for Finance articles.png\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a9 Lee Charlie \/ Shutterstock.com. Senior officers and commissioners at Birmingham City Council should be held to account&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1029894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[41010,56077,855,748,393,474,4884,57633,16,15],"class_list":["post-1029893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-accountability","tag-audit","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-finance","tag-great-britain","tag-officers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116759121835105017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}