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 photo

Sarah Norman OBE - Chief Executive

You can contact Sarah Norman by emailing sarahnorman@barnsley.gov.uk

Katy Calvin-Thomas photo

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

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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)

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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 photo

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 photo

Neil Copley - Director of Finance for Core Services

Andrew Perriman

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