Director of children's services
Gail Hopper
gail.hopper@rochdale.gov.uk
- Early help, early intervention and early years services.
- Children with disabilities and special educational needs.
- Services to schools and school improvement.
- Children’s social care.
- Safeguarding unit.
- Youth Offending Service.
- Practice improvement, performance and quality assurance.
- Children’s joint commissioning.
- Youth service.
- Raising participation and skills.
- Strengthening families.
Head of safeguarding
Susan Thomas
susan.thomas@rochdale.gov.uk
- Independent reviewing officers.
- Safeguarding board.
- Safeguarding unit.
Assistant director of children's social services
Julia Hassall
julia.hassall@rochdale.gov.uk
- Mass and initial response.
- Adoption services.
- Fostering services.
- Children's homes.
- Child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS).
- Child protection response.
- Cared for children.
- Care leavers.
- Emergency duty team.
- Youth offending service.
Head of cared for children
Jim Hopkinson
jim.hopkinson@rochdale.gov.uk
- Cared for children and care leavers.
- CAMHS.
- Youth offending service.
Head of child protection and care proceedings
Pamela Wharton
pamela.wharton2@rochdale.gov.uk
- Emergency duty team.
- Public law outline.
- Child protection.
- Family Time Service.
Head of provider services
Ian Godfrey (interim)
ian.godfrey@rochdale.gov.uk
- Fostering.
- Adoption.
- Children's homes.
- Commissioning and placements.
Head of complex safeguarding
Liz Stenton (interim)
liz.stenton@rochdale.gov.uk
- Sunrise.
- ACT.
- Missing from home.
- Pre-birth service.
Assistant director of early help and schools
Sandra Bowness
sandra.bowness@rochdale.gov.uk
- Special education needs and children with disabilities.
- Schools organisation and development schools – primary and secondary.
- Services to schools.
- Early Years and children's centres.
- Joint commissioning and Integration.
- Early help and stronger families.
- Youth service.
Family service model strategic lead
Amanda Highland-Partington
amanda.highland-partington@rochdale.gov.uk
- Early help.
- Safeguarding hub.
Head of special educational needs (SEN) and children with disabilities (CWD)
Michael Kemp
michael.kemp@rochdale.gov.uk
- Special educational needs including SEN assessment team.
- Educational psychology service.
- Rochdale additional needs service.
- Area SENCO team.
- Children with disabilities including social work team.
- Occupational therapy team.
- Resources.
- Early years keyworkers.
Schools organisational and development team manager
Debra Kay
debra.kay@rochdale.gov.uk
- Management of capital investment across school estate including new construction projects, repairs and maintenance.
- School place planning, including reorganisation and establishment of new schools.
- School admissions for primary and secondary children, including within year transfers and representation at admission appeals.
- Contract management for school PFI (Private Finance Initiative) projects.
- Academy conversion and development.
- Home to school transport in mainstream schools.
Head of Schools
Gillian Barratt
gillian.barratt@rochdale.gov.uk
- School improvement.
- Primary and secondary advice to schools.
- Inclusion including; fair access, equalities, education welfare.
- Overall responsibility for schools HR, governors support, educational visits and Rochdale Supply Agency.
- Raising participation and skills.
- REAL Trust.
- Admissions.
- Music service.
Head of early years
Amanda Highland-Partington
amanda.highland-partington@rochdale.gov.uk
- Children’s centres.
- Family support.
- Parenting team.
- Childcare sufficiency.
- 2, 3 and 4 year old funded places.
- Subsidised and sponsored day care.
- Training team.
- Ofsted registration.
- Family information service/family services directory.
- Early years and childcare advisory team.
- Family learning service.
- Play and development team.
- FAST training.
Service manager for early help and stronger families
Liz Stenton (interim)
liz.stenton@rochdale.gov.uk
- CAF team early help panels – primary and secondary.
- Early help advisers in the MASS.
- TYS key worker team.
- Stronger families advocate team.
- Youth service business support officer.
- Early help domestic abuse officer.
- Implementation of phase 1 and 2 of national payment by results of national troubled families programme (stronger families).
- Development and implementation of public service reform (PSR) focused on complex families.
Senior youth officer
Diane Higgins (interim)
diane.higgins@rochdale.gov.uk
- 4 township youth service teams.
- Youth council.
- Youth cabinet.
- Children’s council Raising the Participation Age (RPA).
Head of practice and improvement
Jackie Gower (interim)
jackie.gower@rochdale.gov.uk
- Children’s services practice and improvement.
- Children’s services business support.
- Children’s services workforce development.
Business support principal manager
Marion Brown
marion.brown@rochdale.gov.uk
- Effective business support across children’s services.
- Responsible for children’s services business support staff.
- Co-ordination of inspections preparation and updating annexe A data.
- Implement children’s social care quality assurance framework.
- Co-ordinate and represent children’s service business continuity plan.
- Children services rep to governance board and FOI responsibility.
Performance improvement manager (children)
Jackie Woodall
jackie.woodall@rochdale.gov.uk
- Manage provision and coordination of planning and performance information, advice and guidance.
- Manage business planning, performance management and monitoring.
- Improvement support, scrutiny and inspection support for children’s services in driving continuous improvement.
Workforce and organisational development manager
Brendan Richards
brendan.richards@rochdale.gov.uk
- Develop a workforce strategy and provide learning and development support for the staff in the children’s services directorate in accordance with legislation, guidance and organisational requirements.
- Work in partnership with key stakeholders/partners to develop an integrated skilled and competent workforce.
- Support the director and assistant directors of children’s services in delivering change and practice improvement.
- Manage the workforce development team.