Council management structure

Management structure

Chief Executive Office

Chief Executive:

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Kenneth Lawrie

The Foundry
4 Central Boulevard
Central Park
Larbert
FK5 4RU

Education Services

Director of Education Services:

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Jon Reid

Falkirk Stadium
4 Stadium Way
Falkirk
FK2 9EE

  • Additional Support Needs (ASN) Provision
  • Catering & Building Cleaning
  • Community, Partnerships and Resources
  • Connected Falkirk
  • Curriculum Support
  • Early Learning & Childcare/Pre-Five Provision
  • Education Business Support
  • Education Psychology Service
  • Links to Active Schools and Outdoor Learning Team
  • Primary Education
  • Quality Improvement Team
  • School Learning Estate Capacity and Infrastructure
  • Secondary Education

Jill Pringle

Head of Education 
Secondary and Performance & Resources 

  • Educational Performance and the Scottish Attainment Challenge (Equity)
  • Falkirk's Local Negotiating
  • Joint Secretary (Management) of Falkirk’s LNCT
  • Learning Estate Strategy
  • Performance & Resources Service Provision
  • Secondary Quality Assurance, Improvement & Curriculum Support
  • Secondary Strategy and Education Provision
  • Workforce Planning (service specific)

Deborah Davidson

Head of Education
ELC, ASN & Primary

  • Additional Support Needs (ASN) and Inclusion Strategy and Education Provision
  • Community, Partnerships and Resources
  • Children's Services Partnership and Leadership
  • ELC/Pre-Five Strategy and Education Provision
  • Educational Psychological Services
  • Getting It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC) /Child Protection/Safeguarding
  • Primary Strategy and Education Provision

Place Services

Director of Place Services:

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Malcolm Bennie

Falkirk Stadium
4 Stadium Way
Falkirk
FK2 9EE

  • Building and engineering design, roads development, roads maintenance
  • Sports & Leisure, Culture & Greenspace
  • Consumer protection, Environmental health
  • Environmental planning, public and school transport
  • Economic development, asset management, Learning & Employability
  • Facilities, vehicle and grounds maintenance
  • Land use planning, development management, building standards
  • Waste strategy, refuse collection, street cleansing

Michael McGuinness

Head of Growth, Planning, Sport & Culture

  • Culture & Greenspace
  • Economic Development
  • Environmental Health &
    Trading Standards
  • Learning & Employability
  • Planning & Building Standards
  • Sports & Leisure

Douglas Gardiner

Head of Environment & Operations

  • Building Maintenance
  • Engineering Design
  • Roads Services
  • Transport Planning
  • Street Cleansing
  • Grounds Maintenance
  • Bereavement Services
  • Waste Services
  • Fleet Services

Paul Kettrick

Head of Investment, Assets & Climate

  • Building Design & Construction
  • Building Design & Construction
  • Corporate Asset Management
  • Commercial Property Portfolio
  • Energy & Climate Change
  • Investment Programmes
  • Major Capital Projects
  • Maintenance & Facilities Management
  • Property Compliance
  • Property Asset Management
  • Strategic Infrastructure

Transformation, Communities and Corporate Services

Director of Transformation, Communities and Corporate Services:

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Karen Algie

The Foundry
4 Central Boulevard
Central Park
Larbert
FK5 4RU

  • Accounting services
  • Democratic services
  • Employee relations, recruitment and training
  • Elections
  • Housing management, maintenance and improvement
  • IT services
  • Income collection and benefits administration
  • Legal services
  • Licensing
  • Policy development and strategic planning
  • Payment of payroll, pensions and creditors
  • Registrars

Amanda Templeman

Chief Finance Officer
Finance, Assurance & Pensions

  • Corporate Finance Corporate
  • Performance & Planning
  • Internal Audit, Risk & Corporate
    Fraud
  • Pensions
  • Transformation

Colin Moodie

Chief Governance Officer
Governance & Human Resources

  • Democratic Services
  • Human Resources & Payroll
  • Information Governance
  • Legal & Procurement
  • Legal Services
  • Marketing and Communication

Kenny Gillespie

Head of Communities, Innovation & Housing

  • Digital, Technology & Resilience
  • Housing Operations
  • Revenue & Benefits
  • Strategy, Communities & Libraries

Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership / Social Work Adult Services

Interim Officer/Director of Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership:

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Caroline Doherty

Suite 1A
Falkirk Stadium
4 Stadium Way
Falkirk
FK2 9EE

  • Adult Social Work
  • Adult Support and Protection
  • Alcohol and Drugs Partnership (ADP)
  • Bo'ness and Falkirk Community Hospitals
  • Criminal justice services
  • Community care services
  • Care at Home, including MECS
  • Care Homes
  • Carer Support
  • Day Services
  • GP Out of Hours
  • Health Improvement
  • Integrated health and social care locality teams
  • Integrated Learning -Disability Teams
  • Integrated Mental Health Teams
  • Living Well Falkirk
  • Primary Care
  • Children and Families Services

See the Falkirk HSCP Strategic Plan.

Claire Chapman

Interim Head of Community Services

  • Care at Home
  • Community Bedded Care
  • Home First
  • Locality Services
  • Out of Hours

Marie Keirs

Chief Finance Officer, HSCP

  • Accountancy
  • Business and Governance
  • Commissioning
  • Communications

Tom Cowan

Head of Strategic Planning and Transformation

  • Health Improvement
  • Primary Care
  • Strategic Planning
  • Transformation

Martin Thom

Head of Specialist Services

  • Allied Health Professionals
  • Community Mental Health
  • Learning Disabilities & Complex
    Care
  • Living Well
  • Prison Healthcare

Sara Lacey

Head of Social Work Children's Services

  • Continuing and Aftercare Services
  • Court Social Work
  • Family Support
  • Fostering and Adoption Services
  • Justice Services
  • Locality based social work teams
  • Prison Based Social Work
  • Social Work and Social Care
  • Workforce Development
  • Youth Justice
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