Mayor and cabinet
Mayor
Philip Glanville
The Mayor, Philip Glanville, is the lead within Cabinet on the following areas:
- property and capital programme
- digital and ICT
- 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
- co-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 Education Service)
- children’s social care
- looked after children and fostering
- troubled families (with the Cabinet member for families, early years, parks and play)
- Young Hackney
- young speakers and youth parliament
- Mayor’s fair futures commission (with the Cabinet member for community safety, policy, and the voluntary sector)
- making Hackney a child-friendly borough (with the Cabinet member for families, early years, parks and play)
- chair of corporate parenting board
Deputy Mayor for housing supply, planning, culture and inclusive economy
Responsibilities
- housing supply and development
- planning – performance and policy
- economic development
- strategic infrastructure development (including economic regeneration with the Cabinet member for energy, sustainability, transport and waste)
- impact of Brexit
- town centres
- Olympics legacy
- markets
- building control
- culture
- Hackney Museum and archives
- libraries and library services
Community safety
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 the chair of licensing)
- youth justice
- environmental protection
- emergency planning
- domestic violence and abuse
- Mayor’s fair futures commission (with the Deputy Mayor and Cabinet member for education, young people and children’s social care)
- violence against women and girls
Health, adult social care and leisure
Responsibilities
- adult social care
- ageing well strategy
- strategic communications and consultations
- supporting people
- public health and the relationship with the wider NHS
- health devolution and integrated commissioning
- mental health
- strategic relationship with the voluntary sector, including voluntary sector grants
- leisure and sport
- food justice including food poverty
- waterways and boaters
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 (working with the Mayor)
- liveable neighbourhoods
Employment, skills and human resources
Responsibilities
- employment strategy and partnerships
- Hackney Works
- apprenticeships
- supported employment
- human resources and organisational development
- policy, strategy and devolution, refugees and vulnerable migrants
- relationship with the trade unions
- adult learning and ESOL
- post 18 skills, including further and higher education
- equalities and anti-racism
- Windrush
- fair trade with the fair trade champion
- volunteering
- supporting the London living wage
Families, early years, parks and play
Responsibilities
- early years
- children’s centres and nurseries
- child minding
- special educational needs and alternative settings
- tackling child poverty
- play and adventure playgrounds
- play streets
- making Hackney a child-friendly borough (with the Deputy Mayor and Cabinet member for education, young people and children’s social care)
- troubled families (with the Deputy Mayor and Cabinet member for education, young people and children’s social care)
- green infrastructure, nature recovery and biodiversity strategies
parks and green spaces - our tree programme
Finance
Responsibilities
- budget and budget monitoring, including the overall financial position report to Cabinet
- revenues and benefits (hardship payments, housing benefits, council tax, CTRS) and responding to welfare reform
- procurement and sustainable procurement strategy (including chair of cabinet procurement committee)
- corporate debt policy and support for vulnerable residents
- insourcing
- pensions
- audit
Mayoral advisers
Private renting and housing affordability
Responsibilities
- strategic housing
- 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
- dementia champion
Homelessness, housing needs and rough sleeping
Responsibilities
- housing needs (including 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
Mental health champion
Dementia champion
No place for hate champion
Fairtrade champion
Heritage champion
Page updated on: 26 February 2021
Mayor and Cabinet Office
Address
Hackney Town Hall
Mare Street
E8 1EA
Telephone
Opening times
- Mon to Fri: 9am - 5pm