Council departments and officers

Council departments

Chief Executive’s Office

Chief Executive: Claire Hamilton

Director of Assurance and Monitoring Officer: Pervinder Sandhu

  • Constitution and Electoral Services
  • Legal services

Deputy Chief Executive

Deputy Chief Executive: Aidan Wilkie 

  • Modernisation and delivery
  • Communications
  • IT and digital 
  • People and culture
  • Policy and equalities
  • Performance and insight 

Resources

Executive Director of Resources: David Kuenssberg

  • Customer services 
  • Commercial
  • Finance 
  • Procurement
  • Revenues, benefits and transactional centre 

Children’s Services

Executive Director of Children’s Services: Daniel Phelps

  • Children and families
  • Education
  • SEND and inclusion 

Adult Services and Public Health

Executive Director of Adult Services and Public Health: Simon Froud

  • Adult social care
  • Adult Services
  • Integrated Care
  • Public Health

Place, Communities and Enterprise 

Executive Director of Place, Communities and Enterprise: Steve Moore 

  • Housing
  • Civic pride
  • Regeneration, property and planning
  • Leisure and culture
  • Community Safety and cohesion 

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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 
  • Aidan Wilkie, Deputy Chief Executive
  • David Kuenssberg, Executive Director of Resources 
  • Daniel Phelps, Executive Director of Children’s Services
  • Simon Froud, Executive Director of Adult Services and Public Health
  • Steve Moore, Executive Director of Place, Communities and Enterprise 
  • Pervinder Sandhu, 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. 


The Chief Executive, or the person they delegate to, 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.