{"id":786546,"date":"2026-02-24T20:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/786546\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:25:12","slug":"birmingham-city-council-fails-to-pass-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/786546\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City Council fails to pass budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier in the month, the council declared itself no longer effectively bankrupt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In budget documents made public ahead of a cabinet meeting, the authority said its financial situation for 2026-27 would be &#8220;balanced&#8221;, with services set for \u00a3130m of investment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since autumn 2023 and the emergence of a vast financial black hole linked in part to equal pay liability, residents have seen service cuts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council has had government commissioners in place to help steer the ship during financial woes that as well as equal pay issues were connected to millions spent on a botched IT system upgrade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leader John Cotton has previously said: &#8220;Thanks to the decisive tough action we took to get the council back on track, the &#8216;bankrupt Birmingham&#8217; tag is now a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are back in the mainstream of local government.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier in the month, the council declared itself no longer effectively bankrupt. In budget documents made public ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":["post-786546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116127486722945813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786546","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=786546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}