[4] Redditch Borough Council provides district-level services.

County-level services are provided by Worcestershire County Council.

[5] Feckenham is a civil parish, which forms a third tier of local government for that part of the borough; the rest of the borough is an unparished area.

[6] Since 2008, the council has developed shared working arrangements with neighbouring Bromsgrove District Council, with the two organisations sharing a chief executive, management team and other staff.

[8] Political control of the council since the 1974 reforms has been as follows:[9] The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in Redditch.