'Fit for Purpose' structure
Bromley Council is a unitary authority, and this section introduces the Council, its structure and operation. The current departmental structure is as follows:
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The Chief Executive is the Council's Head of the Paid Service, and chief policy adviser. He heads the Chief Officer's Executive, which is the officer managerial board including all the departmental Chief Officers.
Chief Officers have a strategic role, advising councillors on their areas of particular expertise, and contributing to the overall leadership of the Council; and also a managerial role, ensuring that the services they are responsible for focus on delivering excellent customer service, and making the most effective use of departmental resources to achieve that goal.
Chief Executive's Department
Main areas of responsibility:
- strategic management of the Council’s business and responsibilities
- policy advice to Members
- human resources and training
- corporate communications
- health and safety.
Chief Executive: Doug Patterson
Telephone: 020 8313 4354
Fax: 0208 313 4444
e-mail: doug.patterson@bromley.gov.uk
Adult and Community Services
Main areas of responsibility:
- care services for older people, people with physical disabilities or sensory impairment
- home care services
- access to day, residential and nursing care services for older people
- home meals service
- occupational therapy assessment
- aids and adaptations for people with disabilities
- disability facilities grants
- disability services including Blue Badges and Freedom Passes
- extra care housing service
- Carelink community alarm system
- care services for people with learning disabilities
- day, residential and supported living services for people with learning disabilities,
- transport for day service users
- care services for people with mental health needs (with Oxleas NHS Trust)
- drug and alcohol services
- supporting people services
- housing advice and homelessness
- community safety.
Director of Adult and Community Services: Terry Rich
Telephone: 020 8313 4612
Fax: 020 8313 4620
e-mail: terry.rich@bromley.gov.uk
Children and Young People Services
Main areas of responsibility:
- schools
- youth service
- student support
- pupil benefits
- social care services for children
- child protection
- foster care
- adoption service
- children and family centres
- support for parents
- behaviour support
- disabled children
- adolescent services including Connexions services
- early years development and childcare
- day nurseries
- special educational needs
- education welfare
- educational psychology
- pupil statistics and attainment
- schools improvement services and training
- partnership and commissioning support services
- school governor services
- education business partnership
- the schools music service.
Director of Children and Young People Services: Gillian Pearson
Telephone: 020 8313 4060
Fax: 020 8313 4122
e-mail: gillian.pearson@bromley.gov.uk
Environmental Services
Main areas of responsibility:
- refuse collection
- recycling
- environmental strategy
- roads
- traffic
- street lighting
- street cleansing
- sewers
- car parking
- public toilets
- parks and open spaces
- allotments
- cemeteries
- tree maintenance
- town and countryside improvements and conservation
- trading standards
- weights and measures
- environmental protection including noise and pests food safety and infectious diseases
- alcohol, gambling and entertainment licences
- CCTV service.
Director of Environmental Services: Nigel Davies
Telephone: 020 8313 4443
Fax: 020 8313 0095
e-mail: nigel.davies@bromley.gov.uk
Legal Democratic and Customer Services
Main areas of responsibility:
- legal services
- support for the Council's decision making process
- councillors' support
- mayoral services
- corporate complaints co-ordination
- facilities management and corporate events support
- administration and office services
- Freedom of Information Act, Environmental Information Regulations and Data Protection Act co-ordination
- electoral services
- customer service centre
- website and information management
- registration of births, deaths and marriages.
Director of Legal and Democratic Services and Council Monitoring Officer: Mark Bowen
Telephone: 020 8313 4355
Fax: 020 8290 0608
e-mail: mark.bowen@bromley.gov.uk
Renewal and Recreation
Main areas of responsibility:
- support for the local economy and regeneration
- lifelong learning
- libraries and museum service
- planning applications
- building control
- architecture and quantity surveying
- council building maintenance
- local land charges
- land and valuation services
- town centre management
- arts and culture
- ecology and nature centres
- tree preservation.
The department also has client responsibility for the Mytime Leisure Trust, which covers:
- leisure centres
- sports facilities
- sports development
- golf courses
- play services
- Buzz holiday programmes.
Director of Renewal and Recreation: Marc Hume
Telephone: 020 8461 7557
Fax: 020 8313 4460
e-mail: marc.hume@bromley.gov.uk
Resources
Main areas of responsibility:
- Council tax
- business rates
- housing benefits,
- general financial matters
- payroll and pensions
- information technology
- procurement.
Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Resources: Paul Dale
Telephone: 020 8313 4338
Fax: 020 8313 4335
e-mail: paul.dale@bromley.gov.uk
Bromley Mytime Leisure Trust
Bromley Mytime Leisure Trust runs leisure services in partnership with Bromley Council.
Chief Executive of Bromley Mytime Leisure Trust: Steve Price
Telephone: 020 8323 1777
Fax: 020 8323 1700
e-mail: steve.price@bromleymytime.org.uk