Meet the council's new adult care and housing boss

Anne Marie Lubanski (above) was named on Wednesday as the successful candidate for the £120,000 post - the seventh addition to senior management since the Jay report.

Mrs Lubanski will oversee the borough's housing strategy and the modernisation of adult social care, which faces cuts of £9.18 million by 2019.

She said she had been given "a fantastic and exciting opportunity to deliver on the adult care transformation and on the housing strategy."

Mrs Lubanski, currently North Yorkshire County Council's assistant director for social care operations, will arrive in August.

Her job will include spending time with frontline adult social care practitioners, the council said, in order to make the best of shrinking resources.

The recruitment was done by an all-party panel of councillors plus lead commissioner Sir Derek Myers and chief executive Sharon Kemp.

Mrs Lubanski has more than 30 years' experience in social care and worked at authorities including Bristol, Avon and the London boroughs of Hillingdon and Hounslow before moving to North Yorkshire in 2008. She will take over from interim director Graeme Betts.

RMBC's completed leadership team (start dates in brackets)

Sharon Kemp, chief executive (Feb 2016).

Shokat Lal, assistant chief executive (Mar 2016).

Damien Wilson, strategic director of regeneration and environment (Apr 2016).

Judith Badger, strategic director of finance and customer services (Apr 2016).

Ian Thomas, strategic director of children services (Jan 2015).

Anne Marie Lubanski, strategic director of adult care and housing (Aug 2016).

Terri Roche, director of public health (June 2015).