By Sammie Jones-
Birmingham City Council is to axe more than 1,000 jobs amid “the most prolonged period of budget cuts in its history.”
A total of 1,095 posts will be axed over the next 12 months, in what will send the well being of many families plunging into chaos unless they get alternative jobs. The council workforce has already been halved with more than 12,000 jobs lost – the next round of redundancies will take this to well over 13,000. Birmingham City Council has suffered many troubles in the past few years. Only last week, Birmingham City Council held an emergency cabinet meeting following Tuesday’s first bin strike day in which they plan to take legal action.
Homelessness in Birmingham is one of the highest in the country, rendering the city a total mess when it comes to well being.
Recent data shows the city to have suffered a total of 90 deaths in the last five years up to the end of 2017. W
The Council has revealed in its next city’s Financial Plan 2019-2023 due to be debated by councillors this week. In a statement, Birmingham City Council said:
“continues to need to reduce the size of its workforce as a result of implementing some of the proposed savings needed to balance its budget…the council anticipates a further reduction of up to 1,579 full time equivalent staff by 2022-23, with up to 1,095 full time equivalents anticipated to exit the organisation in 2019-20.”
Council leader Coun Ian Ward added: “It is clear that after almost a decade of austerity driven cuts, this continues to be the most challenging period in Birmingham City Council’s history.Only last week the council announced the high paid post of Angela Probert, the chief operating officer for strategic services, had been ‘deleted’ as part of cuts. She worked for the authority for around three years and had once briefly stepped up to chief executive following the departure of Mark Rogers in 2017 and preceding the arrival of Stella Manzie