Executive Board
The Be Birmingham Executive Board has the following roles:
- To have an oversight role and responsibility on behalf of Be Birmingham for leading and agreeing the Local Area Agreement (LAA) and Birmingham 2026 Community Strategy for approval by the Be Birmingham Summit and Birmingham City Council
- To develop detailed proposals on the LAA including indicators, targets, budget allocations and delivery arrangements (which will remain the responsibility of the relevant partner agency)
- To contribute, where appropriate, within the authority of the Be Birmingham Summit to other emerging or new strategies
- To performance manage the delivery of the LAA and Birmingham 2026 and recommend necessary actions to ensure that the LAA and Birmingham 2026 outcomes and budgets are achieved
- To manage the delivery of the Working Neighbourhoods Fund (WNF)
- To work with the family of partnerships on the delivery of their LAA responsibilities and ensure cross-cutting working between partnerships
- To promote the development of robust delivery arrangements for the LAA and help evaluate the effectiveness of interventions
Further information on the role of the Executive Board can be found in the terms of reference.
Membership
The membership of the Be Birmingham Executive Board includes each Thematic Executive Board from the family of partnerships, and each key agency involved in taking forward the Local Area Agreement.
Be Birmingham Executive Board members includes Senior Officers for the following partnerships:
- Cultural
- Children and Young People
- Environmental
- Economic Development
- Health and Wellbeing
- City Housing
- Safer
- Neighbourhoods
In addition, the executive board also includes senior officers from the following:
- Advantage West Midlands
- Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
- Birmingham Voluntary Services Council
- Job Centre Plus
- Learning and Skills Council
- Primary Care Trust
- West Midlands Fire Service
- West Midlands Police
(The Local Authority Chief Executive, Deputy Leader and Opposition Leader also sit on the Executive Board, as well as a community sector representative. The Government Office for the West Midlands are observers and brap act as advisors.)
