Council departments and officers

Council departments

Resources

Executive Director of Resources: David Kuenssberg

  • Companies and Commercial
  • Finance 
  • Procurement 
  • Revenues, Benefits and Transactional Centre 
  • IT Services
  • Risk/Insurance 

People

Executive Director of People: Elaine Redding (Interim)

  • Public Health
  • Integrated Care
  • Education and Inclusion
  • Children and Families

Place, Communities and Enterprise 

Executive Director of Place, Communities and Enterprise: Steve Moore (Interim)

  • Housing
  • Civic Pride
  • Regeneration, Property and Planning
  • Leisure and Culture
  • Community Safety and Protection

Customers, Performance and Insight

Executive Director of Customers, Performance and Insight: Julian Ellerby

  • Communications

  • Corporate Strategy and Engagement

  • Digital and Customer Services

  • Human Resources

  • Policy and Performance

 

Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and Cabinet 

Executive Leadership Team 

ELT takes responsibility for all of the council's activities and works with councillors, making sure that services are delivered in accordance with policies and in the best interests of residents.

ELT is made up of the Chief Executive, four Executive Directors and the Director of Assurance and Monitoring Officer.  

They work closely with the Cabinet cycle and meet fortnightly. 

Cabinet

The Cabinet is made up of the Leader of the Council and senior councillors.

The Cabinet are accountable to the public and are the ambassadors for our work in improving Redbridge. They are responsible for the political leadership and actively make sure that the decisions made by the council are collectively politically informed. 

The work programme of ELT closely mirrors that of the Cabinet with many of the items discussed eventually becoming Cabinet Reports. The officer parts of Cabinet reports are signed off by ELT. They meet the full Cabinet on a regular basis, and meet the Leader and Deputy Leader of the Council fortnightly. 

All the key strategies and plans of the council are initially discussed with ELT. The team also deals with major or difficult operational issues, particularly where more than one department is involved. The aim is to leave Executive Directors, and through them directors and heads of service, as free as possible to manage the day-to-day business of the council. 

 

Executive Leadership Team (ELT) 

The Redbridge executive leadership team are: 

  • Claire Hamilton, Chief Executive 
  • David Kuenssberg, Executive Director of Resources 
  • Elaine Redding, Executive Director of People (Interim)
  • Steve Moore, Executive Director of Place, Communities and Enterprise (Interim)
  • Julian Ellerby, Executive Director of Customers, Performance and Insight
  • Pervinder Sandhu, Operational Director of Assurance and Monitoring Officer

Executive Directors nominate a senior officer in their management team to represent them at management team meetings if they are not able to attend. 

View Redbridge Council management structure (PDF 82.4KB)

The Chief Executive, or the person the delegate as their deputy if they are on leave, chairs the executive leadership team meeting.  As head of paid service, the Chief Executive is to give reasonable instructions to any member of staff, senior or junior, within the framework of policies agreed by the Cabinet and the council, and subject to the law and best practice. 

Decisions are normally reached by discussion and consensus, taking into account the professional views of the heads of department. 

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