Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey's New Cabinet Announced
A new Cabinet has been appointed by the Council leader. They are:
New:
- Cllr Peray Ahmet - Cabinet Member for Environment
- Cllr Eugene Ayisi - Cabinet Member for Communities
- Cllr Elin Weston - Cabinet Member for Children and Families
Reappointed:
- Cllr Bernice Vanier - Deputy Leader, and Cabinet Member for Customer Services and Culture
- Cllr Jason Arthur - Cabinet Member Finance and Health
- Cllr Ali Demirci - Cabinet Member for Corporate Resources
- Cllr Joe Goldberg - Cabinet Member for Economic Development, Social Inclusion and Sustainability
- Cllr Alan Strickland - Cabinet Member for Housing, Regeneration and Planning
Here's the only video I can find of Cllr Ahmet, being interviewed with Harringay Councillor Emine Ibrahim:
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Michelle, adult social care comes under Jason Arthur's portfolio. Click the link and scroll down
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/local-democracy/how-decisions-are-made/c...
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If you look through the lists of responsibilities of each Cabinet member there are some bizarre combinations. Why adult social care has been lumped together with finance is mind boggling.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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That's why Boggle is such a nice little game for family gatherings.
For people who don't know it, the pieces get rattled about and then you try to make sense of the random combinations.
Control rests with the person in charge of the timer.
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Well, I've tried the Cabinet responsibilities game for several hours and still can't work them out.
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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Given the rapidly rising bill for adult social care that's where a lot of the finance will go so it's expediency??
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Not sure if that's the reason Gordon. I've been trying to find the list of Cabinet responsibilities from last year to see if they have been shuffled around but I would have thought that responsibility for just adult social care was enough for anyone!
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Well yes - and my wider family's circumstances inform me to some extent...
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Michael perhaps your puzzlement comes from making a faulty assumption about the selection and allocation of responsibilities? Assuming that it's based on sensible, common sense factors. Which let's imagine, take account of such such criteria as:
- The importance of the issues covered and the particular crises/challenges faced in the short and medium term by the Council.
- The Council's political priorities and its values as, at least nominally, a majority Labour administration.
- The need to balance the workload of different cabinet members
- The skills, experience and abilities of individual councillors chosen; plus the time they have available to do the jobs.
- Their personal preferences.
- Their skills at being in the public eye and having to communicate well to residents.
- Their ability to work collaboratively with other colleagues especially when areas of responsibility overlap.
- Plus other relevant functional factors along the same sensible lines.
It is not impossible that each of these were among the criteria uppermost in the mind of Cllr Claire Kober, the Dear Leader, when she came to draw up her list. But it won't surprise you when I say that I seriously doubt it.
Will never know, of course.
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One would hope that rationale criteria were used in the allocation of responsibilities but the evidence doesn't point that way. I frankly can't see how some of these responsibilities come together. I would have thought that being on top of finances was a big job in itself but adding in the other stuff too.....
You have a better memory than me Alan; do the lists of responsibilities look the same as last year?
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Sorry Michael, I don't rely on memory for that level of detail. And in any case I start with an entirely different set of assumptions about how and why Claire Kober might group certain functions and choose particular councillors to carry them out. Starting for example with loyalty to her.
I had a look for you on the website but they'd already changed it. But if you're curious to see the whole list showing last year's posts and allocated responsibilities I think the Leader's Support officer is still probably Ben Hunt. You might try emailing or phoning him. I hear he's a helpful person, and he may be able to quickly locate the old list and email it to you.
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