Council structure and leadership team
Our council is structured into four directorates:
Adult Social Care and Integrated Health
Children's Services
Core Services
Place
Sarah Norman OBE is the Chief Executive of Barnsley Council, and leads our senior management team.
The senior management team is responsible for making sure that policies approved and decisions made by councillors are implemented effectively. Issues that go to the senior management team that need a political decision then go onto cabinet. Where needed, these will also go onto a meeting of Full Council.
Our leadership team
Sarah Norman OBE - Chief Executive
You can contact Sarah Norman by emailing sarahnorman@barnsley.gov.uk
Katy Calvin-Thomas - Adult Social Care and Integrated Health Executive Director
Adult and Wellbeing – Julie Chapman (Service Director)
Commissioning, Improvement and Assurance - Jayne Hellowell (Service Director)
Director of Public Health - Carrie Abbott
Carly Speechley - Children's Services Executive Director
Children’s Social Care and Safeguarding - Matthew Boud (Service Director)
Education, Early Start and Prevention – Nina Sleight (Service Director)
Quality and Improvement - William Shaw (Service Director)
Wendy Popplewell - Core Services Executive Director
People, Communications and Intelligence – Michael Potter (Service Director)
Technology and Innovation – David Robinson (Service Director)
Law, Democratic and Member Services - Andrew Perriman (Service Director)
Finance - Neil Copley (Director of Finance)
Matt O'Neill - Place Executive Director
Environment and Transport – Paul Castle (Service Director)
Regeneration and Culture - Paul Clifford (Service Director)
Communities – Phil Hollingsworth (Service Director)
Neil Copley - Director of Finance for Core Services
Andrew Perriman - Monitoring Officer and Service Director for Law, Democratic and Member Services - Core Services
Our services
Each of our directorates include a wide range of services. You can find out about the services in each directorate below.
Adult Social Care and Integrated Health
Adult assessment and care management
Adult social care public health
Adult social care strategy, service improvements, assurance and change management
Adults strategic safeguarding
Armed forces
Assessment care planning
Brokerage
Children and young people public health
Commissioning, contract and performance management of external provider services, such as residential care, home care, carers support etc
Core offer to the clinical commissioning group for health care and health improvement, and public health strategy and advice
Disabled Facilities Grants and equipment and adaptations
Domestic abuse
Drug and alcohol treatment
Emergency duty team
Food and food poverty
Foundation programme in public health
Gambling harms reduction
Health and social care integration
Health and Wellbeing Board
Health improvement
Health protection
Health visiting (0-5 years)
Healthcare public health
Healthier Futures
How’s Thi Ticker
Independent living at home services, day opportunities and supporting living, and carers support
Infectious disease prevention and control
Making Smoking Invisible
Mental health and wellbeing
National Child Measurement Programme
NHS Health Check programme
Oral health
Outbreak management (eg measles, TB etc)
Personalisation, including direct payments and personal assistants
Poverty, inequalities and involvement
Prevention
Public health advice to NHS commissioners
Public health intelligence
Public health nursing (0-19)
Quality assurance
Research and evaluation
Resilient communities
Safeguarding and social workers
School nursing (5-19)
Self-directed support teams
Sensory impairment services
Stop smoking services
Suicide prevention
Vaccination and screening oversight
Children's Services
Access, assessment, care planning and reviews
Advocacy
Adoption and fostering
Children's residential and leaving care service
Children's social care
Early help
Early years and Families Information Service
Education strategic planning, including school improvement strategy
Education welfare
Improvement advisers and brokerage
Integrated youth services
Outdoor education
Quality assurance
Quality of early years provision and integrated child provision for two to three year olds, including family hubs
School admissions
School governor services
School organisation and school places, including strategies for academies and free schools
Social care and safeguarding quality and standards
Special educational needs
Supporting families
Youth council, youth voice and participation
Core Services
Applications management and support (web mobile working)
Business analysis
Business improvement, including business intelligence
Commercial and transactional services, including:
accounting
budgeting
financial assessments
professional and specialist finance
Communications and marketing
Customer resolution, Barnsley 2030 and policy, performance and equalities
Customer experience and digital strategies, web content and design
Customer services and contact centre
Customer services development
Elections and land charges
Governance and business support
Governance support to joint authorities
Health, safety and emergency resilience
Human resources and organisation development
Information governance and security
Information technology hardware and software development, configuration and maintenance, application training, and customer liaison and support
IT procurement
Legal services
Records management
Registration service
Risk management, internal audit and corporate fraud, corporate commissioning, procurement and contracting
Support for overview and scrutiny
Taxation and benefits assessments (including free school meals administration) and debt recovery
Town twinning
Place
Environment and Transport
Bereavement services
Car parking and parking enforcement
Commercial and pest control services
Depot, transport and fleet authority
Drainage, reservoirs and flood management
Energy and strategic resilience
Grass cutting, grounds maintenance, horticulture and arboriculture
Highway design and development control
Home to school service
Parks and allotments
Public rights of way and Trans Pennine Trail
Road safety and school crossing patrol
Sports and active lifestyle
Strategic transport
Street cleansing, litter picking and fly-tipping
Street lighting and traffic signals
Waste and recycling, collection and disposal, highway authority, network management, inspection, bridges and structures
Winter response and emergency response
Regeneration and Assets
Adult learning and apprenticeships
Berneslai Homes client liaison
Business growth, inward investment and regeneration
Community asset transfers
Economic policy and strategy
Facilities management
Housing strategy and growth
Planning enforcement and building control
Private sector housing
Property management
Spatial planning and infrastructure
Strategic asset management
Town centre management, including town centre market and strategic market development
Worklessness, skills and enterprise
Communities
Area governance arrangements and volunteering
Arts and cultural development
Asylum and resettlement
Community and voluntary sector development
Community grants
Community safety and anti-social behaviour
Counter terrorism
Environmental enforcement
Food hygiene and health and safety
Homelessness and rough sleeping
Libraries, museums and archives
Licensing
Pollutions control
Private sector housing and Berneslai Homes tenancy enforcement
Tourism and events programme
Trading standards, animal health and stray dog control