Senior council staff

The various departments of the council are divided into directorates. Each director has responsibilities for overseeing a cluster of areas.

Chief Executive - Susan Parsonage 

Contact details

• Name: Susan Parsonage
• Email address: susan.parsonage@wokingham.gov.uk
• Directorate: Chief Executive

Responsibilities

• Shaping the council's culture through effective overall leadership of the senior management team and staff, and working with the Leader, Executive and Council Members
• Accountable for the delivery of the council plan
• Developing partnerships
• Taking a long-term view of the development of the area

Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Resources and Assets - Graham Ebers

Contact details

• Name: Graham Ebers
• Email address: graham.ebers@wokingham.gov.uk
• Directorate: Resources and Assets

Responsibilities

• Council Tax
• Benefits
• Business rates
• Commercial property
• Finance
• Legal
• Payroll
• Facilities management
• Administration
• Governance
• Internal audit and Investigations
• Insurance
• Democratic services
• Electoral registration and elections
• Procurement
• Commercial and Contracts
• Digital Solutions
• Information governance including Data Protection
• Treasury Management
• Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable

Chief Operating Officer – Sally Watkins

Contact details

• Name: Sally Watkins
• Email address: sally.watkins@wokingham.gov.uk
• Directorate: Chief Executive’s Office

Responsibilities

• Digital, Data and Technology
• Human Resources
• Organisational Development
• Customer Services
• Business Change
• Health and Safety
• Communications, Engagement and Marketing
• Insight, Strategy and Intelligence
• Communities and Partnerships
• Libraries
• Registrars

Executive Director for Children, Adults and Health - Matt Pope

Contact details

• Name: Matt Pope
• Email address: matt.pope@wokingham.gov.uk
• Directorate: Adult Social Care

Responsibilities

• Director of Adult Services
• Adult social work
• Services for adults with disability
• Mental health services
• Commissioning​ services for adults
• Adult Safeguarding

Director of Children's Services 

Contact details

• Name: Emma Cockerell
• Email address: emma.cockerell@wokingham.gov.uk
• Directorate: Children's Services

Responsibilities

• Referral and Assessment
• Safeguarding
• Family Placement
• Early Help
• Youth Offending
• Children’s Centres
• Short Breaks & Respite
• Children with Disabilities 
• Children in Care & Care Leavers

• Special Educational Needs
• Link to Adopt Thames Valley
• LADO (Local Authority Designated Officer)
• School Improvement and Governor support.
• Educational Psychology
• NEET Prevention (Not in Education, Employment or Training).
• Adult & Community Learning.  
• Early Years’ Service
• Virtual School
• Education Welfare Service
• School Admissions
• School Sufficiency
• Home to School Transport
• CAMHS (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services) Phoenix PRU

Director of Public Health 

Contact details

• Name: Ingrid Slade
• Email address: ingrid.slade@wokingham.gov.uk
• Directorate: Public Health

Responsibilities

• Public Health

Director of Place and Growth - Giorgio Framalicco 

Contact details

• Name: Giorgio Framalicco
• Email address: Giorgio.framalicco@wokingham.gov.uk
• Directorate: Place and Growth

Responsibilities

• Planning and Economic Development
• Strategic Development Locations
• Infrastructure development
• Development Management and Building Control
• Licensing, Trading standards and Environmental Health
• Parks and countryside
• Waste and recycling
• Parking
• Housing register and homelessness
• Management and maintenance of council homes
• Affordable housing delivery
• Housing standards
• Community safety and anti-social behaviour
• Grounds maintenance
• Transport planning and network management
• Highway maintenance and major projects

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