Birmingham City Council has launched a taskforce aimed at reducing the city's infant mortality rate, which is the highest in England and nearly twice the national average.
Between
By Barnie Choudhury
West Midlands Police have arrested more South Asians than any other minority group in the past three years when it comes to drug crime.
Freedom of information
Birmingham has some of the UK's worst affected areas when it comes to unemployment and economic hardship, according to an exclusive new analysis by Birmingham Eastside.
The city
The number of outpatient appointments has dropped significantly since the start of the pandemic.
Face-to-face appointments have switched to over-the-phone, routine scans are being missed and
Birmingham has the highest number of internet devices sent out of all local authorities in England.
Figures from the Department for Education revealed an estimated 9,294 devices were sent
Lack of local mental health beds leads to patients from the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust being sent out of the area for treatment
Patients from the
With almost half a million vaccines administered, the Midlands are the leading region in England for vaccines administered.
The latest NHS data shows that a total of 2.3 million
By TOM FAIR and GEORGE WILLOUGHBY
The number of driving tests carried out last year was the lowest since records began.
Lessons and tests have stopped as England entered another
By VANESSA FILLIS AND GEORGE WILLOUGHBY
Attendance in early years has decreased despite settings staying open according to the latest data from the Department of Education.
Early years settings have
Over 9,000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported in Birmingham in the first full week of the new year, representing a 140% increase since Christmas.
The latest figures
Royal Sutton Coldfield Town Council has failed to spend almost half of its total budgeted money in its annual budget for the first four years since the council was formed.
