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Our mission has been to create a borough for everyone.

Like other inner-city places, we are a borough of contrasts with extreme wealth and poverty that inhibit social mobility.

We support those in need to have better lives through measures such as grants to help families with the cost-of-living crisis and through interventions that can lead to lasting change. For example, we are the only local authority to offer universal free school meals for all primary and secondary school children.

All our residents should have access to excellent council services when they need them. To achieve this, we are investing £28m into our leisure centres, including five swimming pools, and our Idea Stores continue to be important hubs for community life, offering a place for families, students, and adults to meet and learn.

Part of our commitment to improve services for the local community is to directly manage services. This includes our council-owned homes, leisure centres, and youth services.

As the fastest growing and most densely populated place in the UK, there is intense pressure on housing. That is why we are working with developers and housing associations to deliver at least 1,000 social homes for rent every year, along with policies to tackle overcrowding, homelessness and fire safety issues.

The range of Public Realm services we provide needs to improve and our 120 parks, including Victoria Park, must continue to be some of the best in the country.

To achieve this and more, we are investing £78m into our services, £4.4m for additional police and enforcement officers, £3.1m into our CCTV upgrade and £19m into our young people.

We must also reorganise the council, make savings by delivering differently and lean on our location to bring in more revenue from our assets.

Together, we will ensure Tower Hamlets is a significant stakeholder on the London stage and builds a strong reputation on a national level for providing cutting edge services.

Tower Hamlets is a city within a city, and you will encounter opportunities and challenges that will test your ambition, commitment, experience, and skills to the limit.

Tower Hamlets is delivering one of the most ambitious agendas in local government, in one of the most important places in the country.

We have a new administration and an iconic new Town Hall in the former Royal London Hospital building in Whitechapel.

After becoming Chief Executive, it became clear that the council need to change its approach if we are to deliver our Strategic Plan.

To achieve this, we started our People First transformation programme to align our structure, budgets and culture accordingly.

We now have one of the most robust financial positions in local government with signed off accounts which has been praised by a recent Peer Review.

We have changed our directorates and structures including creating new senior roles, and we are bringing in new talent.

The Corporate Director for Children’s Services and Corporate Director for Health and Adult Social Care are fundamental to achieving that ambition. We are the youngest borough in London so we must offer the best service for our children and young people, as well as support our vulnerable adults. As the most densely populated place in England with significant levels of poverty, health also plays a key role in ensuring a good quality of life. From birth to the elderly, we know the difference we can make with partners such as the NHS and community groups to help our residents lead healthier and fuller lives. 

You will have an incredible canvas and set of assets to work with. Tower Hamlets offers the best of London in one borough. It represents the capital’s past as well as its future.

We are the UK’s fastest growing and most densely populated borough, with London’s youngest population; we are home to international business districts which generate the UK’s third highest economic output; we host some of London’s best events and destinations; we are a centre for world class learning and innovation; and we are a borough with an iconic history, where principles of diversity, equality, and inclusion run through our DNA.

These new roles, along with implementing the recommendations from a positive Local Government Association Peer Review we had last month, will help us to become one of the most successful local authorities in the UK.

Join us in our journey. I look forward to receiving your application.