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)
- improving outcomes for 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
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
- 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
- strategic relationship with the voluntary sector, including voluntary sector grants, strategy property
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, including further and higher education
- equalities and anti-racism
- Windrush
- fair trade with the fair trade champion
- volunteering
- policy, strategy and devolution (working with the Mayor)
- refugees and vulnerable migrants
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
- dementia champion
- support to the Member for health, adult social care and leisure on voluntary sector – especially around older people including lunch clubs, Connect Hackney, and the new Marie Lloyd Centre
Member champions
Mental health champion
Dementia champion
No place for hate champion
Fairtrade champion
Heritage champion
Page updated on: 9 October 2020
Mayor and Cabinet Office
Address
Hackney Town Hall
Mare Street
E8 1EA
Telephone
Opening times
- Mon to Fri: 9am - 5pm