How we are organised

Council services

Chief Executive Office - Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service, Paul Lawrence

  • Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal Project Management Office
  • cedia relations and social media
  • campaigns, marketing, design and brand management
  • employee communications
  • strategy
  • city strategies
  • climate and nature
  • data and performance
  • communities
  • insight Unit
  • corporate performance management
  • partnership working corporate governance
  • democratic and committee services
  • members services
  • elections
  • Information Governance Unit

Education and Children’s Services, Executive Director, Amanda Hatton

  • Education and schools
  • early years, lifelong learning
  • libraries and community centres
  • children's social services
  • school estate planning

Chief Social Work Officer functions, including

  • the regulation of registered services
  • quality assurance of adult and children's social work
  • governance of the Council's statutory social work functions
  • community justice social work
  • CCTV
  • multi-agency public protection, including child and adult protection
  • offender management
  • domestic abuse
  • asylum seeking
  • refugee services.

Chief Officer of the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board and Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership, Christine Laverty

The Health and Social Care Partnership for the City of Edinburgh Council and NHS Lothian, through the Integration Joint Board includes

  • adult social work
  • older people's services
  • disability services
  • learning disabilities
  • community and primary care health services
  • providing care for people in their own homes or in nursing homes.

Place, Interim Executive Director, Gareth Barwell

  • planning and sustainable development
  • economic development
  • capital programmes
  • strategic asset management
  • property and assets investment portfolio
  • locality management
  • housing and council landlord services
  • regulatory services, including licensing
  • environmental health
  • waste and environmental cleansing services
  • parks and green spaces
  • facilities management, including, security
  • corporate and schools catering
  • janitorial and cleaning services
  • bereavement and scientific services
  • roads, transport and network services
  • public safety and major events support
  • cultural services, venues and museums
  • homelessness, including advice, prevention and accommodation
  • family and household support
  • the Edinburgh and South East of Scotland City Region Deal programme office

Corporate Services, Executive Director, Dr Deborah Smart

  • financial services
  • commercial and procurement services
  • human resources
  • learning and development
  • payroll
  • recruitment
  • legal services
  • internal audit
  • risk management
  • health and safety
  • digital services
  • customer contact and transactional services
  • council tax and benefits administration
  • city-wide business and administrative support.
  • policy and insight
  • strategic change and delivery
  • programme and project management
  • resilience and emergency planning
  • Lothian Pension Fund.