Mayor and cabinet

Cabinet

Statutory Deputy Mayor and Cabinet member for education, young people and children’s social care

Cllr Anntoinette Bramble

Responsibilities

• statutory Deputy Mayor
• 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 health, social care, leisure and parks

Councillor Feryal Clark

Responsibilities

• adult social care
• older people strategy
• supporting people
• health and wellbeing board
• public health and the relationship with the wider NHS
• health devolution and integrated commissioning
• mental health
• leisure and sport

Community safety, policy, and the voluntary sector

Councillor Caroline Selman

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
• Mayor’s fair futures commission (with Deputy Mayor and Cabinet member for education, young people and children’s social care)

Families, early years and play

Cllr Chris Kennedy

Responsibilities

• early years
• children’s centres and nurseries
• child minding
• special educational needs and alternative settings
• tackling child poverty
• food justice including food poverty
• play and adventure playgrounds
• play streets
• waterways and boaters
• communications and consultations
• 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)
• complaints

Planning, culture and inclusive economy

Councillor Guy Nicholson

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

Finance and housing needs

Councillor Rebecca Rennison

Responsibilities

• housing needs (including lettings and allocations policy)
• rough sleeping
• homelessness and temporary accommodation
• advice services (particularly housing options / homelessness related)
• domestic violence and abuse
• revenues and benefits
• insourcing
• audit and procurement
• pensions
• customer services
• registrars

Housing services

Councillor Clayeon McKenzie

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

Councillor Jon Burke

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

Employment, skills and human resources

Councillor Carole Williams

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
• Windrush
• fair trade with the fair trade champion
• volunteering

Mayoral adviser

Private renting and housing affordability

Councillor Sem Moema

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