This money came from the council’s human resources and financial divisions while elsewhere the city paid out £2 million for agency teachers during the spring term as well as £2 million in January and February with Extra Personnel Ltd on ‘waste operations’.
Recruitment certainly doesn’t come cheap. Birmingham’s last finance chief, Fiona Greenway, lasted less than two years before her job went to Carol Culley, an old chum of Joanne Roney, the council's new managing director.
Ms Greenway worked from May 2023 to March this year. The recruitment firm which brought her to Birmingham, Gatenby Sanderson Ltd, was paid £470,272. I assume the lion’s share of this went to Ms Greenway but who knows? When asked, the recruitment firm wouldn’t say.
Other ‘human resources’ costs include £101,067 for a ‘content creator’; £336,544 to Birmingham Children’s Trust for ‘staff advertising expenses’ on top of the monthly £15,159 salaries for ‘Counter Extremism Programme & Prevent’; £280,024 on an ‘interim director street scene’; and £261,140 to take on Mr Paul Tullett as ‘equal pay programme lead’.
Obviously I did try asking Hays and the council about their arrangements but, again, they didn’t bother to get back to me. Alas, when I looked to see what jobs Hays might have on offer at the moment, its Birmingham Council website says: ‘There are currently no jobs available.’
https://webmicrosites.hays.co.uk/web/birmingham-city-council
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