The Corporate Management Team is the most senior officer group in the council providing a corporate setting for advising the Executive on the business cycle, Forward Plan and policy options.
Led by the Chief Operating Officer, Ian Floyd, it includes the following officers:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Corporate Director of Adult Social Care and Integration
- Corporate Director of Children and Education
- Director of Public Health
- Director of Governance and Monitoring Officer
- Director of Housing and Communities
- Director of Transport, Environment and Planning
- Director of Finance
- Chief Human Resources and Support Services Officer
- Corporate Director of Place
Chief Operating Officer
Ian Floyd
Statutory responsibility - Head of Paid Service
As Head of the Council’s Paid Service, Ian is responsible for securing staff and other resources needed to deliver high quality, cost effective services to the people of York.
Working closely with the Corporate Management Team and the Leader and Executive Team, he ensures those resources support the Council’s vision, policies and goals.
Ian's responsibilities include acting in the capacity of Returning Officer for Local, Parliamentary and European elections and Counting Officer for referendums.
He is also the North Yorkshire and York Lead for the regional Climate Change Commission and Chair of the North Yorkshire Local Resilience Forum Recovery Group.
- Email: ian.floyd@york.gov.uk
- Executive assistant: Sarah Butcher, email: sarah.butcher@york.gov.uk
- Address: West Offices
Corporate Director of Adult Social Care and Integration
Sara Storey
Statutory responsibility - DASS
Sara's responsibilities include:
- All aspects of Adult Social Care assessment and delivery as the DASS
- Market Management in line with the Care Act
- Contracts and Quality Assurance
- Statutory Delivery CQC
- All Age Commissioning
- Adult Provider Services
- Responsible Individual
- Mental Health Services
- Hospital Discharge
- Learning Disabilities and Transitions
- Adults Safeguarding
- Reablement and Early Intervention
- Corporate Director lead for Health Integration (ICS) and Place
- Email: sara.storey@york.gov.uk
- Executive Assistants: Sarah Bentley (Monday to Wednesday), email: sarah.bentley@york.gov.uk, and Sue Hull (Wednesday to Friday), email: sue.hull@york.gov.uk
- Address: West Offices
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Corporate Director of Children and Education
Martin Kelly
Statutory responsibility - Director of Children's Services
The role's responsibilities include:
- Early Years
- Children's Social Care
- Youth Justice Service
- Fostering and Adoption
- Special Educational Needs and Skills
- School Improvement and School Organisation and Support
- Safeguarding
- Email: martin.kelly@york.gov.uk
- Executive assistant: Ethan Mantle, email: ethan.mantle@york.gov.uk
- Address: West Offices
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Director of Public Health
Peter Roderick
Statutory responsibility - Director of Public Health
As senior advocate for the health of the population across the city of York, Peter is accountable for all City of York Council’s responsibilities for public health. They include promoting and protecting the health of residents and reducing health inequalities.
Peter is the lead for the commissioning of a range of public health services including:
- Sexual Health
- Substance Misuse
- Stop Smoking Support
- NHS Health Checks
- Healthy Child Service
The responsibilities also include the delivery of public health programmes such as public mental health, suicide prevention, healthy weight and oral health.
- Email: peter.roderick@york.gov.uk
- Executive assistant: Christina Ravenhill, email: christina.ravenhill@york.gov.uk
- Address: West Offices
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Director of Governance and Monitoring Officer
Bryn Roberts
Bryn is the Council's Director of Governance (Chief Legal Officer) and Monitoring Officer (statutory role). In addition, he is appointed as Senior Information Risk Owner and Deputy Returning Officer (full powers).
Bryn is responsible for the following services:
- Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for compliance with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and the Investigatory Powers Act 2016
- Legal services
- Information Governance, Customer Feedback and Complaints
- Governance and Decision-Making of the Council
- Democratic and Scrutiny Services
- Internal Audit
- Elections
- Email: bryn.roberts@york.gov.uk
- Executive assistant: Megan Kent, email: megan.kent@york.gov.uk
- Address: West Offices
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Director of Housing and Communities
Pauline Stuchfield
Pauline is responsible for Customer Services and Strategy including:
- Customer and Web Services
- Mansion House
- Register Office (including role of Proper Officer)
- Bereavement Services
- Civic Office
- Corporate Strategy and City Partnerships
- Communications
- Carbon Reduction
Her Communities and Equalities responsibilities include:
- Adult Education and Skills
- Leisure and Community Centres
- People and Neighbourhoods Strategy
- Policy Commissioning and Contract/SLA Management across Explore York
- Leisure Facilities
- York Museums Trust
- York CVS
- Citizens Advice York
- Welfare Benefits Unit
- Make It York
- Email: pauline.stuchfield@york.gov.uk
- Executive assistant: Cath Loseby, email: cath.loseby@york.gov.uk
- Address: West Offices
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Director of Transport, Environment and Planning
James Gilchrist
James is responsible for services covering Environment, Transport and Planning. These services maintain the public infrastructure and spaces as well as regulating the activity that takes place. The services collectively operate as curators of the city.
James is responsible for the following services:
- Planning Development Control and enforcement
- Building Control
- Design and Conservation and Sustainability
- Land and Property Gazetteer
- Transport Strategy
- Travel Planning
- Piblic Transport
- Road Safety, Shcool Crossing Patrols and Rights of Way
- Parking
- Active Travel
- Traffic Management
- CCTV and Street Lighting
- Highway Maintenance
- Winter Gritting
- Bar Walls
- Flood Risk and Water Management
- Transport Major Projects, for example, York Outer Ring Road and Station Gateway
- Waste and Recycling Collection and Disposal
- Commercial Waste
- Household Waste and Recycling Sites
- Grounds Maintenance and Street Cleansing
- Fleet Management
- Public Protection
- Envrionment Health and Protection
- Safety Advisory Groups
- Licensing, including Taxi
- Trading Standards
- Contaminated Land
- Emergency Planning, Business Continuity
- Environemtal Crime
- Community Safety Partnership, Community Safety Hub and Talking Anti-social Behaviour
- Protect and Prepare
- Email: james.gilchrist@york.gov.uk
- Executive assistant: Lianne Neve, email: lianne.neve@york.gov.uk
- Address: West Offices
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Director of Finance
Debbie Mitchell
Council’s Section 151 Officer (statutory role)
Debbie is responsible for ensuring the Council has arrangements in place for the proper administration of all financial matters. She is lead officer on all aspects of finance, procurement, insurance and risk.
Debbie also has responsibility for the following areas:
- Business Intelligence
- Commercial Property Portfolio and Facilities Management
- Exchequer Services including revenue collection and recovery, adults income and court of protection
- Email: debbie.mitchell@york.gov.uk
- Address: West Offices
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Chief Human Resources and Support Services Officer
Helen Whiting
Helen's roles and services respobilities will be coming soon.
Corporate Director of Place
Neil Ferris
Neil Ferris will be leaving the council at the end of August 2024.