Children's Services Directorate
Director
Sharon Hubber
Sharon Hubber - Children's Services Director.
Email: sharon.hubber@rochdale.gov.uk
The postholder is responsible for schools, children's social care, early help and prevention, Youth Justice Service, Emergency duty team (EDT) and special educational needs and disability joint commissioning.
Responsibilities include:
- 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
Abu Siddique - Assistant Director, Children's Social Care.
Email: abu.siddique@rochdale.gov.uk
Responsibilities include:
- First Response
- Achieving Change Together (ACT) and complex safeguarding
- Adoption services
- Fostering services
- Children's homes
- Child protection response
- Cared for children
- Care leavers
- Emergency Duty Team
- Youth Justice services
- Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC)
- Children with Disabilities (CWD)
- Early Help and Safeguarding Hub (EHASH) and initial response
Assistant Director
Jane Sowerby - Assistant Director, Early Help and Schools.
Email: jane.sowerby@rochdale.gov.uk
Responsibilities include:
- Special Education Needs and children with additional needs
- School organisation and development schools
- Services to schools
- Early Years and Family Hubs
- Early Help and Stronger Families
- Youth Service
Assistant Director
Charlotte Mitchell - Assistant Director for Integration and Health.
Email: charlotte.mitchell@rochdale.gov.uk
Responsibilities include:
- Special Educational Needs and Disability
- Joint commissioning and integration, including:
- Children's Services local authority commissioning
- Children's health (mental, physical, acute, palliative care)
- Maternity and perinatal
Head of Safeguarding and Quality Assurance
Bev Paris - Head of Safeguarding and Quality Assurance.
Email: bev.paris@rochdale.gov.uk
Children's Services Principal Transformation Lead
Samantha Sirisambhand - Principal Transformation Lead.
Email: samantha.sirisambhand@rochdale.gov.uk