Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Families
Councillor Mick Brown
- Children’s Services: Leadership, strategy and effectiveness of children’s services – responding to the needs of all children and young people, especially the most disadvantaged and vulnerable, and their families and carers.
- Lead Member for Children’s Services: Political accountability for all the local authority children’s services, including education and children’s social care.
- This post is required by law to hold direct local accountability for the effectiveness, availability and value for money of the local authority’s children’s services (particularly education and children’s social care).
- Overseeing the Children’s Trust: Oversight of the ‘client side’ role of the Children’s Trust to ensure the delivery of agreed outcomes, KPIs and finances within the legal and contractual framework agreed.
- Safeguarding Children & Young People: With statutory partners, the safety and wellbeing of all children.
- Corporate Parenting: Political leadership on improving the lives of looked after children. Ensuring all Council members, officers and services understand and actively promote the Council’s responsibilities to looked after children.
- Overseeing Early Years: Ensuring a sufficiency of places and a citywide Early Years Health and Wellbeing offer.
- Education of Children & Young People: Education of Children and Young People - Political leadership on strategic and statutory duties, including school improvement, school places and travel to and from school. Oversight of Dedicated School’s Grant.
- Lead Member for SEND and Inclusion: Lead Member for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) and Inclusion – Lead Member on the SEND agenda across children’s agencies and holding officers and partners to account for the delivery of the Birmingham SEND Strategy.
- Youth Engagement and Youth Service: Youth Engagement and Youth Service
Page last updated: 22 May 2024
