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 and Inclusion, Children's Social Care, Early Years, Early Help and Neighbourhoods, and Safeguarding and Quality Assurance.
Responsibilities include:
- Early Help
- Family Help
- Early Years Services
- Schools and Inclusion
- 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
- Children’s Service Transformation
Assistant Director
Abu Siddique - Assistant Director, Children's Social Care.
Email: abu.siddique@rochdale.gov.uk
Responsibilities include:
- Early Help and Multiagency Safeguarding Hub
- Out of Hours Service to Children and Families
- Family Support and Protection
- Family Help
- Children with Disability
- Edge of Care Service
- Cared for Children
- Care Experience Young People
- Separated Children and Young People (formally Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children)
- Fostering Service
- Greater Manchester Fostering Recruitment Hub
- Connected Carers and Kinship Support
- Adoption Services
- Children's Homes
- Supported Accommodation
- Child Protection Response
- Youth Justice Services
- Complex Safeguarding
- Missing From Home
- Youth Homelessness
Assistant Director
Amanda Highland-Partington - Assistant Director, Early Years, Early Help and Neighbourhoods.
Email: amanda.highland-partington@rochdale.gov.uk
Responsibilities include:
- Early Years Services
- Family Information Service
- Best Start Family Hubs
- Targeted Early Help and Parenting Services
- Family Learning Service
- Family Time Service
- Early Support Service
- Short Breaks and Disabilities Outreach
- Youth Service, Children’s Champions, and Youth Parliament
- Holiday Activity Fund Provision
Assistant Director
Charlotte Mitchell - Assistant Director for Schools and Inclusion
Email: charlotte.mitchell@rochdale.gov.uk
Responsibilities include:
- School organisation and development schools
- Services to schools
- Special Education Needs and Disability (SEND)
- SEND Transport
- Inclusion
- Occupational Therapy
- Wider Metal Health
- Rochdale Additional Needs Service
Assistant Director
Assistant Director for Integration and Health – this position is currently vacant.
Responsibilities include:
- Joint Commissioning and Integration
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS)
- Children's Health - wider portfolio including Integrated Children's Systems
- Occupational Therapy
Head of Safeguarding and Quality Assurance
Bev Paris - Head of Practice Improvement and Safeguarding.
Email: bev.paris@rochdale.gov.uk
Responsibilities include:
- Principal Social Worker for Children and Families
- Rochdale Safeguarding Partnership and Adults Board Business Unit
- Safeguarding Children Team
- Independent Reviewing Officers
- Business Support
- Performance and Business Intelligence
- Workforce Development
- Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) Academy
- Practice Improvement
- Local Authority Designated Officer
- Quality Assurance
- Transformation