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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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