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Cabinet portfolios

The council appointed Councillor Rodney Chambers as Leader for a four-year term at the Annual Council meeting on 25 May 2011. The Leader subsequently appointed Councillor Jarrett as Deputy Leader and a further eight Cabinet Members, details of which are set out below:

Leader

Portfolio holder -  Councillor Rodney Chambers

  • Democracy and governance
  • Inward investment and strategic tourism promotion
  • Regeneration

Finance and Deputy Leader

Portfolio holder -  Councillor Alan Jarrett

  • Better for Less
  • Communications and media
  • Council Plan
  • Council tax and business rates
  • Finance
  • Housing benefit
  • Performance and service improvement
  • Property
  • Risk management
  • Strategic procurement

Adult Services

Portfolio holder -  Councillor David Brake

  • Community care
  • Health
  • Older people
  • Public Health and health improvement
  • Services for people with learning and physical disabilities
  • Telecare/Telemedicare

Children's Services (Lead member)

Portfolio holder -  Councillor Les Wicks

  • Children and Young People’s Plan
  • Early years
  • Home to school transport
  • Inclusion
  • Primary and secondary education
  • School services
  • Special educational needs
  • Specialist youth services
  • Youth

Note

The roles and responsibilities of the Portfolio Holder for Children’s Services are set out in statutory guidance, The roles and responsibilities of the Lead Member for Children’s Services and the Director of Children’s Services, under sections 18(7) (Director of Children’s Services) and 19(2) (Lead Member for Children’s Services) of the Children Act 2004: http://publications.education.gov.uk/default.aspx?PageFunction=productdetails&PageMode=publications&ProductId=DCSF-00686-2009

Children's Social Care

Portfolio holder - Councillor David Wildey

  • Adoption
  • Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services
  • Children with disabilities
  • Children's residential care
  • Fostering
  • Integrated Children's Teams
  • Leaving Care
  • Looked After Children
  • Sunlight Assessment Team

See note above.

Community Safety and Customer Contact

Portfolio holder – Councillor Mike O’Brien 

  • CCTV
  • Community Officers
  • Community safety
  • Customer First
  • Drugs and alcohol
  • Enforcement (executive functions only)
  • Environmental health
  • Legal
  • Trading standards
  • Travellers

Corporate Services

Portfolio holder – Councillor Tom Mason

  • Bereavement Services
  • Big Society
  • Children’s Independent Safeguarding and Review Service
  • Human Resources
  • ICT
  • Learning and Development
  • LSP
  • Registration
  • Sustainable Community Strategy

Front Line Services

Portfolio holder – Councillor Phil Filmer

  • Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management
  • Parking
  • Public transport
  • Roads
  • Street cleaning and waste collection/recycling/waste disposal
  • Traffic management
  • Transport for Medway

Housing and Community Services

Portfolio holder – Councillor Howard Doe

  • Adult learning
  • Castles
  • Disabled adaptations to housing
  • Events
  • Greenspaces
  • Homeless and housing options
  • Housing allocations for social housing
  • Housing Strategy
  • Leisure services
  • Libraries and Community Hubs
  • Private sector housing
  • Sport
  • The development and management of the council's housing stock
  • Theatre and arts
  • Tourism (operations)
  • Voluntary sector

Strategic Development and Economic Growth

Portfolio holder – Councillor Jane Chitty

  • Building and development control*
  • Community Centres
  • Economic development
  • Europe
  • Housing site allocations through the Local Development Framework
  • Local Development Framework
  • Planning
  • Rural strategy
  • Social regeneration

*The council has delegated its building control functions to the South Thames Gateway Building Control Joint Committee.

 

For more information contact Council Office by telephone: 01634 332760 or by email: democratic.services@medway.gov.uk

Write to: Council Office, Medway Council, Gun Wharf, Dock Road, Chatham, Kent ME4 4TR

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