A refreshed group of Executive Members have been chosen to help continue to accelerate Manchester’s vision for a fairer, safer and cleaner city – a place where everyone can afford a great home in successful communities and share in the success of the city’s growth.
Following Manchester City Council’s AGM this week (Weds 20 May), ten executive members representing wards across the city have been appointed to help lead and deliver the city’s priorities and the things that mean most to Mancunians.
Clean streets and great neighbourhoods
The Council has approved almost £12m to help tackle flytipping in communities, cracking down on known hotspots and driving enforcement, while also enhancing general street cleaning to make sure Manchester’s neighbourhoods are places that feel safe and residents can be proud of. More than £1.7m has also been committed to improving and maintaining public space, particularly parks and green spaces.
Housing that meets the needs of Manchester people
The Council is continuing the momentum of the city’s housing strategy to deliver 36,000 new homes up to 2032 – with at least 10,000 being made available as affordable tenures. In the last year, more Council, social and genuinely affordable homes were built than at any point since the mid 1990s.
Manchester has also bucked the national trend of families in temporary accommodation turning the tide of years of expensive homeless housing, while at the same time reducing the numbers of people sleeping rough in the city, making significant progress against a challenging backdrop.
An expanded housing team is also taking up the mantel of the new Renters’ Rights bill, creating more secure housing for our residents in the private rented sector, including a new tenants’ advice service, that will also challenge landlords that don’t deliver.
Great services for Children and Adults
In November 2025, Manchester’s children’s services improvement journey was rewarded with an outstanding Ofsted inspection, making sure that young people in this city have the support services they need to thrive into adulthood. While Manchester continues to improve adult social care in the city, while the national offer remains broken.
Supporting our residents to succeed
As the cost-of-living crisis continues to impact residents across the city, the Council is also opening pathways for Mancunians young and older to develop, learn and grow – to access the high-quality employment opportunities that are being created here and share in the economic growth that is helping the city to prosper.
The Executive Committee group delivering for Manchester is:
Leader - Cllr Bev Craig OBE
Deputy Leader - Cllr Tracey Rawlins
Deputy Leader (statutory) - Cllr Garry Bridges
Early Years, Children and Young People - Cllr Julie Reid
Environment and Transport - Cllr Mandi Shilton-Godwin
Finance and Resources – Cllr Andrew Simcock
Healthy MCR and Adult Social Care - Cllr Thomas Robinson
Housing and Regeneration - Cllr Gavin White
Culture, Libraries and Leisure - Cllr Shazia Butt
Neighbourhoods - Cllr Basat Sheikh
Leader of the Council Bev Craig said:
“Manchester is an amazing city and every councillor elected to represent their community has a responsibility to their residents to build a Manchester that helps them succeed and to make changes to make their lives better.
“We want to build on our successes and keep delivering for our city and make real the commitments we have made to Manchester people to offer great services – including record numbers of affordable homes, transforming our children’s services into an outstanding rated offer, helping to fix locally a broken adult social care system, while also investing in high streets and communities across the city to make the neighbourhood you live in somewhere to take real pride in.
“But there is more to do. We know some of our city streets are blighted by flytipping, we know that homelessness remains a key issue, and we know that there remain big gaps when it comes to deprivation and income. So while we can celebrate our successes, this is only a platform to deliver more for our residents.
“The coming months and years are about building on the foundations of what we have started – and we will work closely and push our Government on things we need from them and how they can support Manchester to continue to thrive.
“We know challenges remain, but the strength of our communities means there is always hope for a strong Manchester in the future.”