Mayor and cabinet

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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)

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