Birmingham City Council Headlines:
Vulnerable children report issued (Sky News, BBC News 24, National ITV and BBC lunchtime news, RadioFive, Radio 4, Midlands Today, Birmingham Mail, Central News, Press Association, BRMB, various national papers online)
Scrutiny report released into care for vulnerable children in Birmingham – media generally lead with the line that the service has been ‘heavily criticised’ and described ‘not fit for purpose.’ Council spokespeople talk about what has been done since the time the review took place and what further plans are in place to improve the service going forward Cllrs Clark, Lawrence and Tony Howell interviewed across various media.
Including a feature on Midlands Today following social workers out on their patch in Aston and the sort of cases they deal with.
Appeal launched to keep Staffs Hoard in Midlands (Radio WM, BRMB, Midlands Today)
Birmingham, Staffordshire and Stoke launch joint appeal to raise funds to help secure the hoard’s long-term future in the Midlands.
Future of town centres (Radio WM- Doolan Show)
Feature on number of stores, especially ex Woolworths still empty. Acocks Green Town Centre Manager interviewed saying the store in Acocks Green has been let and describing all the work of town centre managers to help local centres.
Regional Headlines:
Production workers at Longbridge to lose their jobs as lines still mothballed (BBC WM)
National Headlines:
The Nobel prize for medicine or physiology goes to three US researchers who discovered what protects our chromosomes
Tory call to get people off incapacity benefit and make them work for payments
New UK Supreme Court hearing first case
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