Financial mismanagement at the heart of Birmingham’s SEND transport service, and Alex warns families must not pay the price
Business Live reported that Birmingham City Council’s home-to-school transport service was running at an annual deficit of £3.5 million — a figure that Alex had long argued was the direct result of years of poor financial management by the Labour-controlled council. His concern was not simply the size of the black hole, but what the council intended to do with it. Alex warned publicly that the administration could not create a financial crisis through its own mismanagement and then use that crisis as justification for cutting services to the city’s most vulnerable children. The coverage gave that argument significant reach beyond the council chamber.
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