Cabinet Members
The Cabinet is a group of Councillors who take most of the decisions about what the council does. It is made up of a Leader and 9 other Councillors. Each Cabinet Councillor looks after an individual area of responsibility. They make decisions on how our policies and services are delivered.
Below is a list of who the current Cabinet members are and a summary of their portfolio (areas of responsibility).
- Leader of the Council
- Cabinet Member for Climate Action, Environment and Transport, and Deputy Leader of the Council
- Cabinet Member for Housing Services Private Renters and Planning
- Cabinet Member for Children, Schools and Families
- Cabinet Member for Tackling Inequality and Resident Services
- Cabinet Member for Health, Social Care and Well-being
- Cabinet Member for Finance and Local Investment
- Cabinet Member for Council House-building, Placemaking and Development
- Cabinet Member for Communities and Civic Life
- Cabinet Member for Economic Development, Jobs and Community Cohesion
Leader of the Council
Councillor Peray Ahmet
- Haringey Deal: coproduction, codesign, participation and local democracy
- Communications
- Corporate governance, performance, policy and strategy
- External partnerships
Councillor Ahmet's ward and contact details.
Cabinet Member for Climate Action, Environment and Transport, and Deputy Leader of the Council
Councillor Mike Hakata
- Strategic Transport:
- Walking and cycling
- Electric cars and charging points
- Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods
- Air pollution:
- School Streets
- Liveable Neighbourhoods:
- Coproducing street redesigns
- Play streets
- Trees and canopy cover:
- Community tree-planting and maintenance
- Improving biodiversity
- Coproduced green spaces:
- Pocket parks
- Wildflower planting
- Community gardening and street-planting
- Community orchards
- Allotments and community food growing
- Local renewable energy:
- Community microgeneration projects
- District Energy Networks
- Climate emergency, sustainability and decarbonisation:
- Carbon Management and Zero 50
- Flood prevention
- Community recycling initiatives
Councillor Hakata's ward and contact details.
Cabinet Member for Housing Services, Private Renters and Planning
Councillor Dana Carlin
- Private homes:
- Private rented sector
- Landlord licensing and enforcement
- Empty Homes
- Council housing:
- Council home repairs
- Council tenant engagement and coproduction
- Decent Homes
- Health and safety issues in council homes
- Housing associations:
- Partnerships with social landlords
- Housing needs
- Homelessness and rough sleeping
- Planning policy, framework and enforcement
- Local Plan
- Building regulations
- S106 and Community Infrastructure Levy
- Licensing and regulatory services
Councillor Carlin's ward and contact details.
Cabinet Member for Children, Schools and Families
Councillor Zena Brabazon
- Adoption and fostering
- Early help
- Early years and childcare
- Looked after children and care leavers
- Unaccompanied minors
- Safeguarding children
- Schools and education
- Services for children with disabilities and additional needs
- 16-19 education
- Youth services and youth justice
- Transitions
Councillor Brabazon's ward and contact details
Cabinet Member for Tackling Inequality and Resident Services
Councillor Seema Chandwani
- Local welfare programmes:
- Revenue and benefits
- Council Tax Reduction Scheme
- Welfare advice
- Haringey Here to Help
- Ethical debt policy
- Highways:
- Parking and parking transformation
- Street scene improvement and the public realm
- Your Council:
- Call centre
- Waste:
- Waste management and enforcement
- Fly-tipping
- Recycling
Councillor Chandwani's ward and contact details
Cabinet Member for Health, Social Care and Wellbeing
Councillor Lucia Das Neves
- Adult social care
- Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Public Health:
- Sexual health
- Addiction services
- Connected Communities
- Health and social care integration
- Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board
- Safeguarding adults
- Services for adults with disabilities and additional needs
- Transitions
- Refugee and migrant support
Councillor das Neves' ward and contact details.
Cabinet Member for Finance and Local Investment
Councillor Sarah Williams
- Council finances, budget and MTFS
- Participatory budgeting
- Income generation
- Community wealth-building:
- Procurement: policies, frameworks and systems
- Insourcing policy and delivery
- Capital strategy
- Council Tax policy
- HR, staff wellbeing and corporate recruitment
- IT and digital transformation
- Data policy and reform
- Information management
- Elections
- Emergency planning
Councillor Williams - ward and contact details
Cabinet Member for Council House Building, Placemaking and Development
Councillor Ruth Gordon
- Housing Strategy and Development
- Building high-quality new council homes
- Council housing estate renewal
- Community land trusts
- Placemaking
- Property:
- Council accommodation strategy
- Council property portfolio
- Community buildings
Councillor Gordon's ward and contact details.
Cabinet Member for Communities and Civic Life
Councillor Julie Davies
- Active citizenship:
- Improving community participation
- Expanding local volunteering
- Building social capital
- Supporting community networks
- Capacity-building for VCS organisations
- Local food policy:
- Food security
- Food growing
- Community supermarkets and co-operatives
- Culture:
- Local arts, poetry, literature
- Local festivals (inc food and arts festivals)
- Libraries
- Parks and Leisure
Councillor Davies' ward and contact details.
Cabinet Member for Economic Development, Jobs and Community Cohesion
Councillor Adam Jogee
- Co-Chair of Community Safety Partnership
- Safer streets:
- Women’s safety
- Anti-social behaviour
- Community cohesion:
- Engaging with communities and stakeholders
- Hate crime
- Prevent
- Early intervention model
- Racial, gender, disability and LGBTQ+ inclusion:
- Borough Partnership on racial justice
- Wipe Out Discrimination campaign
- Jobs:
- Tackling unemployment and worklessness
- Adult learning, training and skills
- Local business:
- Local economic growth
- Business engagement
- SME business development
- Town centre and high streets strategy
Councillor Jogee - ward and contact details
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