Council services
Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service, Paul Lawrence
Education and Children’s Services - Executive Director, Amanda Hatton
- Education and schools
- early years, lifelong learning
- libraries and community centres
- children's social services
- school estate planning
Chief Social Work Officer functions, including
- the regulation of registered services
- quality assurance of adult and children's social work
- governance of the Council's statutory social work functions
- community justice social work
- CCTV
- multi-agency public protection, including child and adult protection
- offender management
- domestic abuse
- asylum seeking
- refugee services.
Executive Director of the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership and Chief Officer of the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board – Pat Togher
The Health and Social Care Partnership for the City of Edinburgh Council and NHS Lothian, through the Integration Joint Board includes
- adult social work
- older people's services
- disability services
- learning disabilities
- community and primary care health services
- providing care for people in their own homes or in nursing homes.
Place - Executive Director, Paul Lawrence
- planning and sustainable development
- economic development
- capital programmes
- strategic asset management
- property and assets investment portfolio
- locality management
- housing and council landlord services
- regulatory services, including licensing
- environmental health
- waste and environmental cleansing services
- parks and green spaces
- facilities management, including, security
- corporate and schools catering
- janitorial and cleaning services
- bereavement and scientific services
- roads, transport and network services
- public safety and major events support
- cultural services, venues and museums
- homelessness, including advice, prevention and accommodation
- family and household support
- the Edinburgh and South East of Scotland City Region Deal programme office
Corporate Services - Executive Director, Dr Deborah Smart
- financial services
- commercial and procurement services
- human resources
- learning and development
- payroll
- recruitment
- legal services
- internal audit
- risk management
- health and safety
- digital services
- customer contact and transactional services
- council tax and benefits administration
- city-wide business and administrative support.
- policy and insight
- strategic change and delivery
- programme and project management
- corporate performance management
- partnership working corporate governance
- democratic and committee services
- resilience and emergency planning
- media relations
- campaigns, marketing, design and brand management
- employee communications
- Lothian Pension Fund