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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

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

Cllr 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

    Cllr 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

    Cllr 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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    May 26, 2022

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