Cabinet Warrants Of Office

Executive Leader The Executive Leader is the head of the Council's Cabinet. The Executive Leader has a role in all the Council's affairs, though in practice most areas of operation are assigned to designated Deputies. The Executive Leader retains individual responsibility for the budget, Community Strategy, Local Strategic Partnership and key policy initiatives. The Executive Leader chairs Cabinet meetings and exercises responsibilities in conjunction with the designated Deputies. The Executive Leader acts as Chair of the Greater Manchester Pension Fund.

Councillor Roy Oldham, CBE Executive Leader

Terms of Reference

• To Chair the Cabinet.
• To select the Cabinet Deputies, Secretaries and Aide de Camp.
• To represent and act as ambassador for the Authority.
• To have overall responsibility for;
  • policy development and design
  • finance service responsibility
  • construction of annual budget
  • oversee the Comprehensive Performance Assessment
  • the Council's work in respect of the Community Strategy and Local Strategic Partnership
  • development brief of special projects and registers
  • Ministerial and Members of Parliament/European Parliament liaison
  • Policy Unit
  • and act as Head of Cabinet.
• To represent the Council's views on matters of corporate or strategic policy and any other matters which are within the Executive Leader's terms of reference.
• To request or commission research and other studies on any matters of policy or service provision within these terms of reference.
• To appoint or nominate the Authority's representatives on outside bodies/organisations that fall within these terms of reference.
• To adopt and review on an annual basis the service plans for services within these terms of reference.
• To take up corporate membership of any appropriate body or organisation whose objectives are considered to be beneficial to the pursuit of the Authority's own activities.
• To take urgent decisions on matters which fall within the Executive Leader's terms of reference.
• To have joint responsibility for the development and monitoring of;
  • the Technical Services brief, with regard to the Unitary Development Plan
  • the Economic Services brief, with regard to Land Policy
• In respect of safeguarding children to;
  • ensure that the Council gives appropriate priority to safeguarding children coherently and consistently in service planning and resource allocation
  • designate one Cabinet member with responsibility for safeguarding children
  • ensure the Council appoints an Executive Director to carry social services responsibilities and ensure that the Cabinet receives advice from him/her on all relevant matters
  • Ensure all communities are equally served in this regard.
• To submit to the Cabinet:
  • proposals on how to agree annual budget allocations between services
  • recommendations in respect of strategic policy for the Authority
  • recommendations in respect of the Authority's annual Corporate Plan
  • all responses to consultation papers, relating to these terms of reference, issued by the Government and outside organisations
  • annual estimates of expenditure and income
  • all policy and/or operational matters which have corporate implications or which cross the remits of the individual deputies
  • any matter which crosses the portfolio of more than one deputy, and which cannot be resolved, to the Cabinet for decision
• To have responsibility for deciding the allocation of executive responsibilities set out in the Constitution.
• To prepare and publish a Forward Plan of Key Decisions.
• To present to the Council "state of the area" reorts.
• In respect of the Council's budget and Council Tax:
  • to make recommendations for the proper administration of the Authority's financial affairs
  • to consider the Authority's revenue and capital estimates and to make recommendations on the levels of Council Tax for submission to the Council.
  • to consider and make recommendations annually to the Council on the calculation of the Council Tax base.
  • To consider and make recommendations to Council in respect of the final accounts and balance sheets of the Council and the Annual Reports on the accounts prepared by the relevant officers
• To consider, and forward to the Standards Committee, reports from the appropriately designated independent person(s), to investigate allegations of misconduct against the Council's Head of Paid Service and Executive Team