Bob Kerslake

The Right Honourable
The Lord Kerslake
Kt FAcSS
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
17 March 2015
Life Peerage
Head of the Home Civil Service
In office
1 January 2012 – September 2014
Preceded by Gus O'Donnell
Succeeded by Jeremy Heywood
Permanent Secretary
Department for Communities and Local Government
In office
2010–2015
Preceded by Peter Housden
Succeeded by Melanie Dawes
Personal details
Born Robert Walter Kerslake
(1955-02-28) 28 February 1955

Robert Walter Kerslake, Baron Kerslake, Kt, FAcSS (born 28 February 1955) is a British senior civil servant. He was the Head of the Home Civil Service, after the retirement of the former holder, the Cabinet Secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell on 31 December 2011 until September 2014.[1]

He continued to be Permanent Secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government.[2] In December 2014 he was appointed as the Chair of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to begin in June 2015.[3] He was introduced as a Crossbench life peer in the House of Lords on 17 March 2015.[4]

Early life

Kerslake was born on 28 February 1955.[5] He is originally from Bath, Somerset, and attended The Blue School, Wells.[6] He graduated with a first class degree in Mathematics from the University of Warwick, where he was also secretary of the students' union.[7]

Career

Kerslake qualified as a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and went on to hold a number of posts with councils in London before becoming Chief Executive of the London Borough of Hounslow. He then moved to Sheffield to take up the post of Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council in 1997. From 2008–10 he was Chief Executive of the Homes and Communities Agency; and in September 2010 Kerslake was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Department for Communities and Local Government.[8] In December 2014 he was appointed as the Chair of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to begin in June 2015.[3] In October 2016 he became Chair of the Board of Governors at Sheffield Hallam University.[9] In December 2017, he resigned as Chair of King's College Hospital Trust in protest at what he described as "dire NHS funding problems", and calling for "a fundamental rethink (of)... the way that the NHS is funded and organised"[10]. Shortly after, reports surfaced that he had been asked to resign by the chair of NHS Improvement two days previously owing to the trust's "poor financial performance". [11]

Honours and styles of address

Honours

Styles of address

  • 1955–2005: Mr Bob Kerslake
  • 2005–2015: Sir Bob Kerslake
  • 2015–: The Right Honourable The Lord Kerslake

References

  1. ↑ "Sir Bob Kerslake". Government Digital Service. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  2. ↑ Sir Bob Kerslake is new Civil Service boss, BBC News
  3. 1 2 Kerslake wins top NHS job, lgcplus.com; accessed 11 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Lord Kerslake". UK Parliament. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "Birthdays", The Guardian, p. 33 |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  6. ↑ Trim, Liam (9 May 2017). "50 famous people who went to school in Somerset and Dorset". somersetlive.
  7. 1 2 "Summer 2012 Honorary Graduates (full list)". University of Warwick. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
  8. ↑ Profile, communities.gov.uk; accessed 11 June 2015.
  9. ↑ "Members of the Board of Governors". Sheffield Hallam University website. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  10. ↑ Kerslake, Bob (10 December 2017). "I'm quitting as a hospital boss: dire NHS funding problems give me no choice". the Guardian.
  11. ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/11/lord-kerslake-quits-nhs-trust-chairman-unrealistic-funding-cuts/
  12. ↑ The innovators, The Guardian, 10 September 2003. Retrieved 28 May 2010
  13. ↑ Honorary awards – archive Archived 23 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine., SHU. Retrieved 28 May 2010
  14. ↑ Council chief receives knighthood, BBC News, 31 December 2004. Retrieved 28 May 2010
  15. ↑ "No. 57509". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2004. p. 1.
  16. ↑ "No. 57737". The London Gazette. 23 August 2005. p. 10898.
  17. ↑ "Peerage for Sir Bob Kerslake". Press release. Prime Minister's Office. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  18. ↑ "No. 61177". The London Gazette. 23 March 2015. p. 5242.
  19. ↑ "New Fellows Announced". Academy of Social Sciences. March 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
Government offices
Preceded by
Sir Peter Housden		 Permanent Secretary of the Department for Communities and Local Government
2010 to 2015		 Succeeded by
Melanie Dawes
Preceded by
Sir Gus O'Donnell		 Head of the Home Civil Service
2012 to 2015		 Succeeded by
Sir Jeremy Heywood
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