Sheffield Council has spent nearly £100 million on consultants and agency staff over the past five years as it struggled to run services.
The council employed 366 consultancy suppliers since April 2018 at a cost of £14,269,131 and spent £84,819,192 on agency staff in the same time period, according to a new council document. Councillor Mohammed Mahroof, who asked for the figures at a full council meeting this week, said: “In anybody’s language this is a horrendous figure for a local authority to be spending on third party people. “People in Sheffield will be concerned about this amount of expenditure on external sources.
“We have a duty as we go into this next budget setting process to ensure that every pound of public money is spent wisely and we set the budget for the coming years and the medium term financial analysis prudently, transparently and on a cross party basis. Every pound of public money needs to be spent wisely and it is right that we scrutinise all costs. “These figures are looking back and I think we need to be focussed on the challenges going forward.
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