Financial Accounts 2024 to 2025
Notice regarding 2024/25 Accounts:
This notice is published under regulation 15(1) of the Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (“the Regulations”).
- Birmingham City Council (“the Council”) has not been able to publish its draft Statement of Accounts for the financial year 2024/2025 by 30 June 2025 as required by regulation 15(1) of the Regulations.
- The reasons for this are as follows:
The Council implemented a new enterprise resource planning system, Oracle Fusion, in April 2022. This is software which supports and integrates different parts of the Council’s operations.
There have been a number of issues with the running of the system since then. While fixes have been put in place to ensure that the Council’s assets are safeguarded, and to ensure that transactions with residents, suppliers and customers can occur appropriately, the Council has had to undertake a significant amount of manual work alongside publishing statements since and including the 2020/21.
This has resulted in a delay in publishing the 2024/25 statements. It is expected that this delay will only be for a very short time.
- The Regulations require the Council to state in this notice that it acknowledges that it must publish its accountability statements for the financial year 2024/2025 as soon as reasonably practicable.
Carol Culley
Executive Director of Finance (Responsible Finance Officer)
Page last updated: 1 July 2025
