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Birmingham Council Spending Data: The Good, The Bad, and The Downright Obstructive —guardian.co.uk

The council have released their spending data for August, not in the most usable format or with much contextual information. Chris Taggart explains. (It does reveal over £600, 000 to various Capita companies, however — but is that good or bad, we don't know).

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Private firm to ‘improve’ Council customer services

Capita, who specialise in taking outsourced work from large organisations (Central Government, the BBC) have won a 142 million pound deal to help “improve customer services” for Birmingham City Council. They’re going to sub-contract the work to a company called Axon, adding a third tier to the, business of communicating with certain council departments.

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