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 Justice Service
- Practice improvement, performance and quality assurance
- Children's joint commissioning
- Youth service
- Raising participation and skills
- Strengthening families
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 Justice Service
Assistant director of early help and schools
Steve Kay
steve.kay@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
Head of safeguarding
Susan Thomas
susan.thomas@rochdale.gov.uk
- Independent reviewing officers
- Safeguarding partnership
- Safeguarding unit
Head of cared for children and youth justice service
Sharon Hawkins (interim)
sharon.hawkins@rochdale.gov.uk
- Cared for children and care leavers
- CAMHS
- Youth Justice Service
Head of child protection and care proceedings
Chris James
chris.james2@rochdale.gov.uk
- Emergency duty team
- Public law outline
- Child protection
- Family Time Service
Head of provider services
Ian Godfrey
ian.godfrey@rochdale.gov.uk
- Fostering
- Adoption
- Children's homes
- Commissioning and placements
Head of complex safeguarding
Tracy Chatterton
tracy.chatterton@rochdale.gov.uk
- Sunrise
- ACT
- Missing from home
- Pre-birth service
- First response teams
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 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
Head of early years and early help
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
- Early help
- Safeguarding hub
- Family service model
- Early help domestic abuse officer
- Stronger families advocate team
Head of practice and improvement
Bev Paris
bev.paris@rochdale.gov.uk
- Practice and improvement
- Business support
- Workforce development
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
Senior youth officer
Diane Higgins
diane.higgins@rochdale.gov.uk
- 4 township youth service teams
- Youth council
- Youth cabinet
- Children’s council Raising the Participation Age (RPA)
Business support principal manager
Lee-Anne Agard
lee-anne.agard@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)
Vicki Robinson
vicki.robinson@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