the Council locally, regionally and nationally. Growth & Infrastructure. Deborah Taylor – Deputy Leader. Children and Family Services (the designated lead member for children and young people), Community Safety and Safeguarding, Regulatory Services, County Council representative on Police and Crime Panel. Peter Bedford - Post-Covid Recovery and Ways of Working. (The portfolio includes responsibilities for Transformation previously within the Resources portfolio). Lee Breckon - Resources i.e. Functions of the Corporate Resources Department: finance, property, ICT and human resources, and the operational aspects of those functions. Ozzy O'Shea – Highways, Transportation and Flooding (This includes the flooding responsibilities of the Environment and Transport Department, and the Local Flood Risk Management Strategy). Blake Pain - Environment and the Green Agenda. (Responsibility for waste management and disposal sits with this portfolio, as does the County planning function, the Environment Strategy and related strategies). Pam Posnett - Community and Staff Relations (Includes Broadband). Christine Radford - Adults and Communities Louise Richardson - Health. Chair of the Health and Wellbeing Board. Richard Shepherd - Support for Resources portfolio. Departments There are six departments: Corporate Resources (including property, finance, HR, communications, country parks and traded services) Environment and Transport (including highways, transport and waste) Adults and Communities (including adult social care, museums, libraries and adult learning) Children and Family Services (including children's social care and school support) Public health (which commissions a wide range of public health services, including smoking cessation, school nurses and sport and fitness programmes) Chief Executive's (including policy, democratic services, trading standards, registration services, planning, legal services) Key responsibilities In the five years to 2015, the council's roles and responsibilities changed significantly, due to austerity savings, the transfer of public health from the NHS to the council and many schools becoming academies, independent of the council. However, that still left a number of key responsibilities. As of December 2015, these are: social care for adults and children; support for schools; highways and transport; public health; waste disposal; economic development; libraries and museums; strategic planning; trading standards; country parks; registration of births, marriages and deaths; and community leadership. Financial situation The council claims to be the lowest-funded county council, yet one of the top three best performers, across a wide range of indicators. From 2010–2015, the council has had to save £100 million – two-thirds as efficiency savings and the remainder from services. The council has predicted it will have to save more