{"id":74680,"date":"2025-04-23T08:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=74680"},"modified":"2025-04-23T08:03:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:03:59","slug":"council-behind-birmingham-bin-chaos-wasted-53m-on-consultants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/23\/council-behind-birmingham-bin-chaos-wasted-53m-on-consultants\/","title":{"rendered":"Council behind Birmingham bin chaos \u2018wasted\u2019 \u00a353m on consultants"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Dp2q9.img?w=534&amp;h=335&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The Birmingham bin strike is in its seventh week and has no sign of resolution - Mike Kemp\/Getty\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The council at the centre of Birmingham\u2019s bin strike chaos \u201cwasted\u201d more than \u00a353 million on consultants in four years, analysis shows. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/council-behind-birmingham-bin-chaos-wasted-53m-on-consultants\/ar-AA1DoUY2?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=1d5c1d7e609042828329bc464032d51f&amp;ei=12\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The council at the centre of Birmingham\u2019s bin strike chaos \u201cwasted\u201d more than \u00a353 million on consultants in four years, analysis shows&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/refuse-birmingham.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74681,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74680\/revisions\/74681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}