Town hall bosses have been slammed for spending more than £70m on agency staff in the last six years.

Critics accused Manchester council of ‘huge’ wastefulness after the figures were revealed under Freedom of Information laws.

The city spent an average of £14m a year on agency workers between 2007 and 2012, according to data supplied to the Liberal Democrats.

Reported by the Manchester Evening News. You can read the full story here.

Matthew Burgess
http://www.mattburgess.co
I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.