Taxpayers in Liverpool are forking out huge sums of money to help the city council identify and address its own mistakes.
Liverpool Council is currently the subject of a major government intervention. Following last year's damning inspection report a team of four Whitehall commissioners were appointed to oversee the work and decisions made in the council's Regeneration, Highways and Property Management departments, which had been heavily criticised in Max Caller's report.
That inspection came amid a police investigation that led to a number of arrests linked to the council including former mayor Joe Anderson and former regeneration boss Nick Kavanagh. Neither have been charged and both deny wrongdoing.
