Directorates
Chief Executive’s
In this directorate are Communications and Strategy and Policy.
Communications plays an important role in keeping residents informed. Things like encouraging residents to use free school meals or to disposing of their waste and recycling in the right way.
Strategy and Policy is the information centre of the council. It advises and guides decision-making and helps align the Mayor’s political ambitions with council services and projects.
Children’s Services
This directorate will get significant investment due to the Mayor’s focus and priority on young people. Teams in Children’s Services manage primary and secondary schools in Tower Hamlets, including the free school meals programme for all pupils. Making Tower Hamlets the first local authority to offer this in England.
They also run children’s centres, youth hubs and fostering and adoption services:
- Schools – admissions, free school meals
- Youth services
- Looked after children
- Foster care
- Adoption
- Early help, children and family service
Communities
This is a customer-focused directorate that includes the following service areas:
- Leisure - Gyms, swimming pools and leisure centres, as well as parks and green spaces
- Culture - Arts team, Idea Stores and Tower Hamlets Local History and Archive
- Public Realm - Highways, parking, pest control, Trading Standards and enforcement, waste and recycling services, markets
- Community safety - Violence against women and girls, anti-social behaviour, substance misuse, patrols, enforcement
Health and Adult Social Care
Working with colleagues in the NHS, Public Health teams provide services that help people stay healthy and protect them from threats to their health.
This directorate also covers:
- Adult Social Care
- Social work
- Commissioned homecar
Housing and Regeneration
Teams in housing include:
- Housing
- Regeneration
- Planning and building control
- Growth and Economic Development
- WorkPath
Growth and Economic Development look after our high streets, support small businesses and Creative Enterprise Zones.
Housing includes homelessness, council housing and new builds.
Resources
This is the backbone of the council. Without these services the council can't operate. The teams in Resources help the council run smoothly, making sure staff are recruited and paid, the computer systems work and that teams can buy the items they need to carry out their tasks.
They include:
- Legal
- Human Resources
- Procurement
- Finance
- Democratic services
- Customer services
- IT
- Facilities Management
