Mayor and cabinet
Mayor
Philip Glanville
The Mayor, Philip Glanville, is the lead within Cabinet on the following areas:
- property
- digital and ICT
- strategic communications and consultations (with support from the Cabinet member for families, early years and play)
- devolution and policy (with support from the Cabinet member for community safety, policy, and the voluntary sector)
- customer services, casework review and complaints
- Woodberry Down regeneration
- private sector housing and housing affordability (supported by a mayoral adviser as outlined below)
- chair of Health and Wellbeing Board
Cabinet
Deputy Mayor and Cabinet member for education, young people and children’s social care
Responsibilities
- ethical governance and chair of standards committee
- democratic and electoral services
- legal services
- Hackney education and schools (Hackney Learning Trust)
- children’s social care
- looked after children and fostering
- troubled families (with the Cabinet member for families, early years and play)
- young Black men project
- young Hackney
- young speakers and youth parliament
- Mayor’s fair futures commission (with Cabinet member for community safety, policy, and the voluntary sector)
- making Hackney a child-friendly borough (with the Cabinet member for families, early years and play)
Deputy Mayor and Cabinet member for Finance, housing needs and supply
Responsibilities
- housing needs (including lettings and allocations policy)
- rough sleeping
- homelessness and temporary accommodation
- internal advice services (particularly housing options / homelessness related)
- revenues and benefits
- insourcing
- audit and procurement
- pensions
- strategic housing
- housing regeneration
Community safety, policy, and the voluntary sector
Responsibilities
- strategic relationship with the police
- crime reduction and antisocial behaviour
- integrated gangs unit
- noise nuisance
- environmental health and trading standards
- licensing enforcement
- licensing policy (working with chair of licensing)
- youth justice
- environmental protection
- emergency planning
- strategic relationship with the voluntary sector, including voluntary sector grants
- policy, strategy and devolution (working with the Mayor)
- refugees and vulnerable migrants
- domestic violence and abuse
- Mayor’s fair futures commission (with Deputy Mayor and Cabinet member for education, young people and children’s social care)
Health, adult social care and leisure
Responsibilities
- adult social care
- ageing well strategy
- supporting people
- public health and the relationship with the wider NHS
- health devolution and integrated commissioning
- mental health
- leisure and sport
- food justice including food poverty
- waterways and boaters
- communications and consultations
Planning, culture and inclusive economy
Responsibilities
- planning – performance and policy
- economic development
- strategic infrastructure development (including economic regeneration – the latter with Cabinet member energy, sustainability, transport and waste)
- impact of Brexit
- town centres
- Olympics legacy
- markets
- building control
- culture
- Hackney Museum and archives
- libraries and library services
Housing services
Responsibilities
- housing management / services
- housing service transformation and improvement
- HRA business plan and strategic asset management plan
- better homes partnership
- fire and resident safety
- TMO champion
- Travellers
- maintaining strong relations with the tenants and residents movement
Energy, waste, transport and public realm
Responsibilities
- energy – generation, efficiency, and procurement
- climate change – including responding to the emergency, mitigation, adaptation, and public awareness
- corporate decarbonisation
- environmental sustainability
- waste services and waste prevention
- recycling
- the circular economy
- street and estate cleansing
- clean air and tackling pollution
- parking control
- public realm and streetscene
- strategic and local transport
- liveable neighbourhoods
- parks
Employment, skills and human resources
Responsibilities
- employment strategy and partnerships
- Hackney Works
- apprenticeships
- supported employment
- human resources and organisational development
- relationship with the trade unions
- adult learning and ESOL
- post 18 skills
- equalities
- fair trade with the fair trade champion
- volunteering
Families, early years and play
Responsibilities
- early years
- children’s centres and nurseries
- childminding
- special educational needs and alternative settings
- tackling child poverty
- play and adventure playgrounds
- play streets
- making Hackney a child-friendly borough (with Deputy Mayor and Cabinet member for education, young people and children’s social care)
- troubled families (with Deputy Mayor and Cabinet member for education, young people and children’s social care)
Mayoral advisers
Private renting and housing affordability
Responsibilities
- private sector housing
- housing affordability
- promoting shared ownership and other intermediate products
- housing association relationships and accountability
- Hackney’s housing company and living rent homes
- older people’s housing
Older people
Responsibilities
- ageing well strategy
- ensuring council policies are age-friendly, and that older people have a voice in shaping council services
Member champions
Dementia champion
No place for hate champion
Fairtrade champion
Heritage champion
Page updated on: 15 July 2020
Mayor and Cabinet Office
Address
Hackney Town Hall
Mare Street
E8 1EA
Telephone
Opening times
- Mon to Fri: 9am - 5pm