Delivering on our outcomes
Rotherham Council is a metropolitan borough council and is responsible for providing a range of services including social care, planning, housing, revenue and benefits support, licensing, business regulation and enforcement, electoral registration, refuse and recycling, leisure, culture, parks and green spaces, economic growth, highway maintenance, education and skills, community safety and public health.
It also has an important role in working with other providers of public services across Rotherham.
The Council’s constitution sets out how the Council operates, how decisions are made and the procedures that are followed to ensure that this is efficient, transparent, and accountable to local people.
The Council has 59 elected councillors, representing 25 wards inside the Rotherham Borough geographical boundary. The Council is currently led by a Labour Cabinet of 7 Members.
Several committees and panels are responsible for decision making, including Council, Cabinet, Audit Committee, Standards and Ethics Committee and Scrutiny.
Details of all these, as well as copies of agendas, papers and official minutes of proceedings can be found on the Council’s website.
The day-to-day management of the Council, and its services is overseen by the Strategic Leadership Team and led by the Chief Executive.
The Council is split into five directorates (See below).
All directorates will collectively work together over the next five years to achieve the commitments set out within each of the five outcomes.
The Council’s focus is on delivering its priorities in accordance with the agreed budget. This is set against the additional financial pressures of the increased cost of living, inflation and increasing demand for services due to population growth and changing demographics in Rotherham.
The Council’s Medium Term Financial Strategy submitted to Cabinet in December 2024 provides a four-year outlook of the Council’s anticipated resources and budget requirement and sets out our approach to deliver a sustainable budget position up to 2027/28.
The Council is also focused on its leadership role across the borough and particularly where it can have greater influence.
Partnership working is recognised across all services as being essential to the future of the borough; combining knowledge, ideas, expertise, and resources to deliver tangible improvements, deliver efficiencies and economies of scale, and helping to strengthen our communities.
- Children and Young People’s Services
- Adult Social Care, Housing and Public Health
- Regeneration and Environment
- Finance and Customer Services
- Assistant Chief Executive’s directorate
