Hackney cabinet members
Mayor
Philip Glanville
The Mayor, Philip Glanville, is the lead within cabinet on the following areas:
- overall property and capital programme
- digital and ICT
- chair of the Hackney community partnership
- co-chair of the Hackney health & wellbeing board
- devolution and policy (with support from the cabinet member for employment, human resources and equalities)
- Woodberry Down regeneration
- London legacy development corporation transition and inclusive 2012 Olympic legacy
- relationships with London councils, LGA & international partners
- public affairs and campaigns
Cabinet
Deputy Mayor and cabinet member for education, young people and children’s social care
Responsibilities
- statutory Deputy Mayor
- ethical governance and chair of standards committee
- democratic and electoral services
- legal services
- Hackney education and schools (Hackney Education Service)
- children’s social care and safeguarding
- reducing exclusions and promoting school inclusion
- looked after children and fostering
- supporting families (with the cabinet member for families, parks and leisure)
- Young Hackney
- young speakers and youth parliament
- delivery of Mayor’s young futures commission recommendations (with cabinet member for community safety and regulatory services)
- delivering Hackney ‘A child friendly borough’ (with the cabinet member for families, parks and leisure)
- chair of corporate parenting board
Deputy Mayor for delivery, inclusive economy & regeneration
Responsibilities
- 2022 to 26 manifesto & council strategic plan delivery
- capital programme – new homes, infrastructure and services delivery
- town centre, high street, estates and neighbourhood place making
- planning service – performance, policy, plan making, building control & enforcement
- inclusive economic development – local business, cooperative & social enterprise led community wealth building delivery
- regional & international economic partnerships delivery
Cabinet member for community safety and regulatory services
Responsibilities
- strategic relationship with the police inc. accountability and improving trust and confidence
- crime reduction and antisocial behaviour
- integrated gangs unit
- noise nuisance
- environmental health and trading standards
- licensing enforcement
- licensing policy (working with chair of licensing)
- night time economy
- street markets and street trading
- youth justice
- environmental protection
- emergency planning and relationship with London fire brigade
- CCTV and public surveillance
- domestic violence and abuse
- delivery of Mayor’s young futures commission recommendations (with Deputy Mayor and cabinet member for education, young people and children’s social care)
- violence against women and girls
Cabinet member for health, adult social care, voluntary sector and culture
Responsibilities
- health and relationship with the local NHS
- adult social care
- mental health and wellbeing
- public health
- voluntary and community sector
- arts & culture
- libraries, museum and archives
- food justice
- communications and consultations
- waterways and boaters
Cabinet member for housing services and resident participation
Responsibilities
- housing management / services
- housing service transformation and improvement
- housing revenue account (HRA) business plan and strategic asset management plan
- retrofit council homes programme with cabinet member for environment and transport
- better homes partnership
- fire and resident safety
- tenant management organisation (TMO) champion
- Travellers
- maintaining strong relations with the tenants and residents movement
Cabinet member for environment and transport
Responsibilities
- climate change – including responding to the emergency, mitigation, adaptation, and public awareness
- environmental sustainability
- transport (working with Mayor) – bus priority, road safety, accessibility, strategic infrastructure and transportation
- liveable neighbourhoods – promoting walking and cycling
- clean air and tackling pollution
- public realm and streetscene
- electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure
- energy – community and local generation, efficiency, and procurement
- retrofit council homes programme with cabinet member for housing services and resident participation
- growing the green and circular economy
- waste and recycling
- waste services and waste reduction and prevention
- street and estate cleansing
- corporate decarbonisation and just transition to net zero
- vehicle and cycle parking
Cabinet member for employment, human Resources and equalities
Responsibilities
- employment strategy and partnerships
- Hackney works
- apprenticeships – including Hackney apprenticeship network and the apprenticeship levy
- employment programmes including supported employment, adult trainees and paid work experience
- human Resources and organisational development
- relationship with the trade unions
- adult learning and English to speakers of other languages (ESOL) – delivering excellence
- post 18 skills, including further and higher education
- supporting the London living wage
- equalities and anti-racism
- refugees and vulnerable migrants
- windrush
- policy, strategy and devolution
- fair trade with the climate justice and fair trade champion
- volunteering
Cabinet member for families, parks and leisure
Responsibilities
- early years
- children’s centres and nurseries
- affordable childcare commission
- special Educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
- alternative settings and additional resource provision (ARP)
- tackling child poverty
- supporting families (with Deputy Mayor and cabinet member for education, young People and children’s social Care)
- leisure and sport
- play and adventure playgrounds
- play streets
- parks and green spaces
- green infrastructure, nature recovery and biodiversity
- our tree programme
- delivering Hackney ‘A child friendly borough’ (with Deputy Mayor and cabinet member for education, young people and children’s social Care)
Cabinet member for finance, insourcing and customer service
Responsibilities
- budget and budget monitoring, inc. overall financial position report to cabinet
- revenues & benefits (hardship and support payments, housing benefits, Council tax, CTRS) and responding to welfare reform
- procurement and sustainable procurement and strategy (inc. chair of cabinet procurement and insourcing committee)
- corporate debt policy and support for vulnerable residents
- insourcing services
- pensions
- customer services, casework review and complaints
- audit
Mayoral advisers
Mayoral adviser for private rented sector and housing affordability
Responsibilities
- strategic housing
- private sector housing (excluding temporary accommodation)
- housing affordability
- fire safety and leaseholders (non-council)
- promoting shared ownership and other intermediate products
- housing association relationships and accountability
- Hackney’s housing company and living rent homes
Mayoral adviser for older people and carers
Responsibilities
- ageing well strategy
- ensuring council policies are age-friendly, and that older people have a voice in shaping council services
- dementia friendly borough
- promoting inter generational opportunities across the council and wider community
- carers
Mayoral adviser for housing needs and homelessness
Responsibilities
- housing needs (inc. lettings and allocations policy)
- rough sleeping
- homelessness and temporary accommodation including our work with young people
- internal advice services (particularly housing options / homelessness related)
Member Champions
- Cllr Claudia Turbet-Delof – Mental Health
- Cllr Sheila Suso-Runge – Heritage
- Cllr Sam Pallis – Inclusive Business, Social Enterprise and Cooperatives
- Cllr Gilbert Smyth – Climate Justice and Fairtrade
- Cllr Joseph Ogundemuren – No Place for Hate
- Cllr Sade Etti – Inter-Faith
Page updated on: 19 August 2022
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Hackney Town Hall
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E8 1EA
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