Leader and Cabinet Member for Resources and Transformation

• Strategic and pollical leadership of the London Borough of Bexley
• Responsibility for Executive functions of the Council
• Corporate Policy and Resource Plan
• Annual Budget
• Capital Strategy and Programme
• Medium Term Financial Strategy
• Value for Money/Economy, Effectiveness & Efficiency
• Corporate Governance including Council Constitution
• Annual Planning Cycle including Budget, Performance and Service Outcomes
• Corporate Planning and Performance Framework
• External Funding
• Corporate services budget and development plan
• Corporate Financial Administration
• Financial services
• Strategic procurement
• Corporate issues re Government, GLA, Thames Gateway, Local London, and regional bodies
• Key Council Strategies and Partnerships
• Bexley 2050
• Economic Growth Strategy
• Housing Strategy
• Future Bexley
• Asset Management Strategy
• Land acquisition and disposal programmes
• Land management, in particular the Council’s non-operational land
• Communications & Marketing
• Resident Engagement
• Risk Management Strategy and corporate risk management
• Civil protection and emergency plans
• Grants to voluntary and other bodies
• NHS Reforms, Ten Year Strategy, Neighbourhood Health Centres and health partnerships
• Pride in Place programme
• Community Hubs
• Health and safety
• People Strategy
• BexleyCo

Deputy Leader & Cabinet Member for Economic Growth & Infrastructure

• Deputising for and supporting the Leader
• Borough regeneration strategy
• Local Plan and Local Development Framework issues
• Supporting/deputising for the Leader on Local London
• Regeneration partnerships
• Planning briefs and development agreements
• Major development schemes
• Strategic/Regional Transport
• Developing and monitoring housing and neighbourhood renewal policies
• Economic Growth Strategy (with Leader)
• Town centre management including Shopping Centres
• Housing Strategy (with Leader)
• Policies relating to affordable housing and sustainable housing strategy
• Building Control
• Bexley Business & Employment
• Highway Maintenance and investment programme
• Improvement and maintenance of highway and drainage infrastructure
• Local transport issues
• Road Safety Plan
• Public transport liaison
• Traffic management and parking schemes
• Local safety schemes
• Car parking and parking enforcement
• Road safety promotion and implementation
• Engineering and construction related services
• Engagement with utilities companies

Cabinet Member for Environment, Culture and Leisure

• Environmental Services
• Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan
• Environmental Impact
• Waste management and recycling
• Environmental Health/Trading Standards
• Street cleaning services
• Recycling and waste collection services
• Reuse and Recycling Centres
• Environmental sustainability
• Management and investment plans for parks, open spaces, allotments, and cemeteries
• Leisure development and sports strategy
• Sports and recreation
• Playground investments
• Management and development of leisure facilities
• Events programme
• Tourism
• Cultural services and development including heritage and arts
• Culture Strategy
• Flood prevention

Cabinet Member for Adults and Health

• Lead Member for Adult’s Services
• Prevention Strategy
• Adult Social Care Workforce Plan and professional workforce development and standards
• Ageing Well Strategy, incorporating dementia
• Bexley Wellbeing Partnership
• Learning Disability Strategy
• Adult Autism Strategy and action plan
• Mental health strategy
• Local Health and Social Care Integration – Local Care Networks
• Adult Social Care transport
• NHS Reforms, Ten Year Strategy, Neighbourhood Health Centres and health partnerships (with Leader)
• Transfer of Care Collaborative
• Liaison with voluntary sector for Adult Social Care
• Development of Digital and Assistive Technology
• Safeguarding adults at risk and care quality
• Reablement and independence
• Information, advice and guidance
• Social care accommodation
• Carers
• Disability and sensory impairment services
• Public Health
• Local Delivery Plan for Health
• Social Care Market Shaping & Development
• Community Care
• Drug and Alcohol services
• Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy
• Adult Social Care Vision Statement
• Transitions (with Cabinet Member for Children and Families’)

Cabinet Member for Children & Families’

• Lead Member for Children’s Services
• Corporate Parenting Lead
• Liaison with voluntary sector for Children’s Services
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
• Children and Young People’s vision and improvement plan
• Early intervention services for Children
• Service based health related matters
• Joint planning with other agencies
• Services for care leavers
• Children’s Social Care
• Youth Services
• Adoption and Fostering
• Child Protection
• Local Safeguarding Children’s  Partnership
• Children with Disability Services
• Family wellbeing and children’s centres
• Youth Justice Service
• Commissioned Youth delivery
• Family and parenting services
• Transitions to Adulthood (children with a disability and children in our care)
• Transitions to Adults Social Care/Preparing for Adulthood (with Cabinet Member for Adults and Health)
• Family First Partnership
• Family Hubs

Cabinet Member for Finance, Corporate Services and Education

• School standards and improvement
• Special Educational Needs and Disability strategy and services and Government reforms
• SEN travel assistance
• Attendance and behaviour
• Bexley Selection Test and co-ordination of school admissions
• School place planning
• Strategic Education Partnership
• Schools Forum
• Headteacher liaison
• Eary Years
• Wrap around childcare
• 14 to 19 provision
• Adult education
• Skills
• Links with South East London Colleges and Adult Education Providers
• Learning and Enterprise College Bexley
• Maintained school maintenance
• Traded services to schools
• Appointment of LA Governors
• Secular curriculum, RE and worship
• Holiday activities and food programme/Free School Meals
• ICT & Digital Strategy and Plans
• Customer Experience Strategy and Standards
• Access to Services, quality, consultation, and complaints
• Electoral registration and elections
• Information Governance and Data Protection
• Registrars
• Legal Department
• Service Design, Transformation and Change Programmes (with Leader)
• Financial Services (with Leader)
• Strategic Procurement (with Leader)
• Financial Eligibility Assessments
• Council Tax and Business Rates collection and benefits administration
• Management and maintenance of public buildings
• Civic accommodation, Facilities Management and building services
• People Strategy (with Leader)
• Budget planning and MTFS (with Leader)

Cabinet Member for Communities and Housing

• Community Safety Partnership Strategy including CCTV and associated work plan
• Engagement with police
• Prevention work around crime and antisocial behaviour
• Bexley Community Safety Partnership Strategy
• Housing Allocations
• Homelessness prevention and services for Homeless Families
• Housing Aid and Advice
• Former Housing Stock Contracts
• Housing Strategy (with Leader)
• Rough sleeping strategy, outreach and emergency provision (SWEP)
• Temporary accommodation
• Tenancy sustainment and resettlement
• Identification and referral of individuals at risk (through homelessness assessments, housing applications, and rough sleeping outreach)
• Armed Forces Covenant and liaison
• Library services, Strategy and implementation plan including local studies
• Library investment
• Community Centres
• Community Hubs (with Leader)
• Community Strategy
• Community participation
• Improving public involvement
• Public, private, and voluntary sector coordinated responses
• Corporate liaison with voluntary sector
• Encouraging community networks and support systems
• Community cohesion policies
• Equality and Inclusion Policy and annual action plan
• Services to Travellers and management of service delivery
• Channel Panel**
• Home energy conservation
• Violence Against Women and Girls strategy and services
• Services for victims and survivors of domestic abuse

**Channel Panel is a statutory multi-agency programme which identifies and supports at risk individuals. Having identified an individual at risk of radicalisation, the Channel Panel, chaired by the Local Authority, will assess the nature and extent of the risk, and subsequently develop the most appropriate support plan for the individual concerned to reduce the risk and safeguard them.