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City leaders

Warren Bradley
Councillor Warren Bradley - Leader
Cllr Warren Bradley has been a member of the council since 2000 and represents the Wavertree ward of the city.

He has a strong political background having been a party worker for many years, and his parents were both city councillors.

He sits on the board of the Liverpool Culture Company, North West Vision and Arts Council North West. He is also on the board of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, St George's Hall Trust, the Theatres Trust and the Liverpool Biennial.

He is a full time firefighter with Merseyside Fire Service. A keen cyclist and his passions include music, the theatre and running a junior football team. He is married to Pauline and they have a son and a daughter.

Colin Hilton
Colin Hilton - Chief Executive

Born in Merseyside, Colin graduated from the University of Wales and taught for 10 years in Bridgend, Coventry and the USA.  He has worked for Buckinghamshire, Knowsley and St. Helens Councils before coming to Liverpool in October 1999 as Executive Director for Children's Services.  

Colin is a director of the Regional Broadband Consortium for ICT, was Chair of Liverpool Children and Young Peoples Partnership and a governor of Liverpool Community College.  

In the January 2006 New Year's Honours he was awarded the CBE for services to education.

Council successes

  • Liverpool beat off stiff competition to win the European Capital of Culture title.
  • Liverpool has been awarded Beacon Status for libraries, Social Inclusion through ICT and Community Legal Services.
  • Key services such as those for children and young people (including education), adult social care and environment have been officially judged to be 'performing well' by the Audit Commission, while the benefits service gets top marks and is rated as 'performing strongly'.                                 
  • Liverpool's Council Tax is no longer the highest in the country, following a series of freezes and a cut, together with inflation level rises. Liverpool has now dropped out of the top 100 most taxed councils in the country.
  • Liverpool has introduced the largest school building programme in Europe, transforming the quality of education for tens of thousands of children through a £500 million scheme to refurbish or replace every secondary school.
  • Liverpool has established Joint Venture companies to invest in, manage and improve council services. This has included pioneering the largest council call centre in the country which handles more than two million calls per year, and a network of One Stop Shops across the city.                 

More information on the Executive Management Team.

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