Hackney cabinet members
Mayor
Caroline Woodley
The Mayor, Caroline Woodley, is the lead within cabinet on the following areas:
- overall budget and policy responsibility
- private rented sector and housing affordability – supported by Deputy Cabinet member
- relationships with London Councils, LGA and key stakeholders
- Early Years
- children’s centres and nurseries
- Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
- tackling child poverty
- supporting families (with Deputy Mayor and cabinet member for Education, Young People and Children’s Social Care)
- leisure and sport
- parks and green spaces
- green infrastructure, nature recovery and biodiversity
- delivering Hackney ‘A Child Friendly Borough’ (with Deputy Mayor and cabinet member for Education, Young People and Children’s Social Care)
Cabinet
Cllr Anntoinette Bramble
Deputy Mayor and cabinet member for education, young people and children’s social care
Responsibilities:
- Statutory Deputy Mayor
- 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 Mayor)
- Young Hackney
- young speakers and youth parliament
- delivery of Mayor’s young futures commission recommendations (with the Mayor)
- delivering Hackney ‘A child friendly borough’ (with the cabinet member for families, parks and leisure)
- chair of corporate parenting board
Cllr Guy Nicholson
Deputy Mayor for delivery, inclusive economy & regeneration
Responsibilities:
- 2022 to 26 manifesto and council strategic plan delivery
- capital programme – new homes, infrastructure and services delivery
- housing needs and homelessness – supported by Deputy Cabinet member
- 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 and international economic partnerships delivery
- ethical governance and chair of Standards Committee
- Woodberry Down regeneration
- London legacy development corporation transition and inclusive 2012 Olympic legacy
Cllr Robert Chapman
Cabinet member for finance, insourcing and customer service
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
- democratic services and electoral registration
- overall property and capital programme
- digital and ICT
- legal services
Cllr Mete Coban
Cabinet member for climate change, environment and transport
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
Cllr Susan Fajana Thomas
Cabinet member for community safety and regulatory services
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
- markets, shop fronts and street trading
- youth justice
- environmental protection
- emergency planning and relationship with London fire brigade
- CCTV and public surveillance
- domestic violence and abuse
- violence against women and girls
- delivery of Mayor’s young futures commission recommendations (with Deputy Mayor and cabinet member for education, young people and children’s social care)
Cllr Chris Kennedy
Cabinet member for health, adult social care, voluntary sector and culture
Responsibilities:
- health and relationship with the local NHS
- adult social care
- mental health and wellbeing
- public health
- voluntary and community sector (VCS) including VCS property
- arts & culture
- libraries, museum and archives
- food justice
- communications and consultations
- waterways and boaters
- armed forces champion
- public affairs and campaigns
Cllr Clayeon McKenzie
Cabinet member for housing services and resident participation
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
- fire and resident safety
- tenant management organisation (TMO) champion
- Travellers
- maintaining strong relations with the tenants and residents movement
Cllr Carole Williams
Cabinet member for employment, human Resources and equalities
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
Deputy cabinet member
Cllr Sade Etti
Deputy cabinet member for housing needs and homelessness
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)
Cllr Sem Moema
Deputy cabinet member for private rented sector and housing affordability
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
Member Champions
- Cllr Sade Etti – Inter-Faith
- Cllr Joseph Ogundemuren – No Place for Hate
- Cllr Sam Pallis – Inclusive Business, Social Enterprise and Cooperatives
- Cllr Gilbert Smyth – Climate Justice and Fairtrade
- Cllr Sheila Suso-Runge – Heritage
Page updated on: 14 March 2024
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