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Organisation

Our Strategy Board comprises the Regional Director, Deputy Regional Directors, the Regional Director for Public Health and three non-executive members. The Board is chaired by Trudi Elliott, who joined the Government Office as Regional Director in April 2006. The Strategy Board is responsible for providing strategic leadership and direction to GOWM.

The non-executive members are Professor Michael Clarke, Brian Woods-Scawen, who also chairs our audit committee, and Karamjit Singh.

The organisation is made up of five Directorates and the Public Health Group. 

The Directorates are as follows:

  • Sustainable Futures Directorate is responsible for housing, planning, transport, regional policy, culture, media and sport, sustainable development and rural policy.   
  • Economic and Organisational Development Directorate is responsible for European programmes, trade and industry policy and corporate services. 
  • Children and Learners Directorate is responsible for policies on early years, childhood, young people and skills and higher education.
  • Places Directorate is responsible for focus on place, local government improvement, Local Area Agreements, neighbourhood renewal, social inclusion and cohesion delivery and crime and drugs delivery. 
  • Dr Rashmi Shukla is Director for Public Health at GOWM. More information on the work of this division can be found under the Public Health section of this site.
  • Community Safety Directorate is responsible for crime and drugs policy, social inclusion and cohesion policy, resilience and audit.  

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