What is going on in Birmingham?

As previously discussed in my timeline, what is being presented as a crisis brought on by the need to retrospectively deal with an equal pay problem, is actually much more a case of the impossibility of financial planning when the newly installed IT system means the financial management of the Council has become impossible due to an absence of financial data....

Another IT firm is wrecking lives with impunity; sound familiar?

#politics

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/may/01/birmingham-city-council-accused-of-making-cuts-based-on-imagined-data

Birmingham city council accused of basing drastic cuts on ‘imagined’ data

Whistleblowers fear £760m equal pay liability bill could be hugely overstated, as IT problems leave finances in disarray

^{Jessica Murray (The Guardian)}