Cabinet
The cabinet is the council's executive branch, responsible for proposing the policy framework and budget to the rest of the council and for taking decisions on resources and priorities throughout the year. The cabinet delivers and implements the budget and policies decided by the council.
Portfolio Holders
Leader of the Council
| Responsibilities | |
| Strategic leadership of the Council | |
| Communications and marketing | |
| Finance |
Deputy Leader of the Council and Portfolio Holder for Housing and Community Services
| Responsibilities | |
| Adult learning | |
| All housing services (including HRA) | |
| Archives | |
| Armed Forces Covenant | |
| Climate change | |
| Events and festivals | |
| Greenspaces | |
| Heritage | |
| Homelessness and housing options | |
| Kyndi | |
| Leisure services | |
| Libraries and community hubs | |
| Medway Development Company | |
| Sporting legacy | |
| Theatres and arts | |
| Tourism | |
| Voluntary sector |
Portfolio Holder for Adults' Services
| Responsibilities | |
| Adults' mental health and disability services (including learning and physical disabilities) | |
| Adults' partnership commissioning (25+) and Better Care Fund | |
| Community care | |
| Health and health partnerships | |
| Independent safeguarding and review service | |
| Older people | |
| Public health - lead member, including health and wellbeing board |
Portfolio Holder for Business Managament
| Responsibilities | |
| All wardens | |
| Audit and counter fraud | |
| Bereavement services | |
| Commissioning | |
| Community centre | |
| Customer contact | |
| Democracy and governance | |
| Emergency planning | |
| Management of business | |
| New joint ventures | |
| Registration | |
| Revenue and benefits | |
| Risk management and performance monitoring |
Portfolio Holder for Children's Services
| Responsibilities | |
| Children's partnership commissioning (0-25) | |
| Children's provider services (including adoption, fostering, supported accommodation and residential care) | |
| Children's social care and safeguarding services including safeguarding board | |
| Early help (including Medway Action For Families, youth offending team (YOT) and youth services) | |
| External inspections | |
| Inclusion | |
| SEND including mental health | |
| SEND transport |
Portfolio Holder for Education and Schools
| Responsibilities | |
| Child Friendly Medway champion (including Medway Youth Council) | |
| Early years | |
| Education safeguarding | |
| Further education | |
| Liaison between higher education and schools | |
| Mainstream primary and secondary education | |
| Mainstream school transport | |
| Newly qualified teachers | |
| School organisation and capital projects | |
| School services (including admissions and Medway Test) |
Portfolio Holder for Front Line Services
| Responsibilities | |
| Highways | |
| Medway Norse | |
| Parking | |
| Public transport | |
| Street cleaning and waste collection/recycling/waste disposal | |
| Street lighting | |
| Traffic management | |
| Transport strategy | |
| Travel safety |
Portfolio Holder for Inward Investment, Strategic Regeneration and Partnerships
| Responsibilities | |
| External funding/income generation | |
| Heritage champion | |
| Inward investment | |
| Medway the place | |
| Strategic partnerships | |
| Strategic regeneration and planning |
Portfolio Holder for Planning, Economic Growth and Regulation
| Responsibilities | |
| Economic development | |
| Employment | |
| High streets | |
| Licensing (executive functions only) | |
| Local plan | |
| Markets | |
| Planning policy | |
| Regulation - environmental health, trading standards and enforcement (executive functions only) | |
| Social regeneration | |
| South Thames Gateway Building Control Partnership |
Portfolio Holder for Resources
| Responsibilities | |
| Business and administration support service | |
| Category management / procurement | |
| CCTV | |
| Community safety partnership | |
| Complaints policy and management | |
| Council plan and performance and service improvement | |
| HR | |
| ICT | |
| Legal | |
| Property | |
| Transformation and digital services | |
| Travellers |
Cabinet Meetings
2019 to 2023
2015 to 2019
2011 to 2015
Only meetings where attendance records are available are shown above. To view the list of meetings for each term, click on the appropriate heading. Click on the date of a meeting to see who was present.
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