Birmingham City Council's political leadership has been accused of failing to grasp the full scale of change needed to turn the authority around, a scathing letter from the council's improvement panel stated. In a letter to secretary of state Greg Clark, the chair of Birmingham Independent Improvement Panel, John Crabtree, said: 'While the panel commends the energy and commitment demonstrated by the chief executive and his team, there remain questions about whether the senior political leadership of the council fully understands the scale of change required. 'We are not yet seeing the radical shifts necessary to address the starkest of Lord Kerslake's criticism of the council's culture.' The letter, which forms the progress report to the secretary of state on the council's improvement journey, has said there has been progress but adds that the pace of change needs to be accelerated.
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