Tuesday, 25 January 2022

QUIRK QUITS

 Office of the Chief Executive 

Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, London, W8 7NX 

Chief Executive 

Barry Quirk

All elected Members, RB Kensington and Chelsea 

Tuesday 25th January 2022 

My resignation as the Council’s chief executive - to take effect later this year 

I have written today to Cllr Elizabeth Campbell, the Leader of the Council, advising her  that I shall step down from my role as chief executive with effect later this summer.   

The Council can now begin to search for a new chief executive; so as to make an  appointment in July. This will be after the 5th anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy, after  the hearing sessions at the Public Inquiry, and after the new Council has been elected  locally. 

It has been a real honour to work for this Council, helping it to meet the enormous  challenges it has faced over the past five years. Elected Members have supported me  immensely in my role, and I sincerely hope to have the chance over the coming months to  be able to thank each councillor personally for your help and support.  

Leading the Council’s overall efforts in the response and recovery to the 2017 Grenfell  Tower fire tragedy has been the most difficult, the most humbling and the most important  professional challenge of my 45-year career in London local government. I remain in awe  of the dignity, humanity and positivity of the bereaved, survivors and residents affected by  this tragedy. There is so much more we need to do to support each of them along their  personal routes to recovery. 

More generally, it has been a real privilege to help the Council reinvent its governance,  values, policy priorities, and management over the past four years. It has been marvellous  to have had an opportunity to have worked with, and learn from, such talented and  dedicated staff here at Kensington and Chelsea.  

I should specifically like to thank Cllr Elizabeth Campbell, the Leader of the Council, for  the clarity of her purposeful leadership, and for her unstinting support to me over this  entire period.  

Although I will step down later this year, I will continue in my role, actively leading our  managers and staff, to ensure that the business of the Council continues to progress. 

Yours sincerely,


21 comments:

  1. Anonymous25 January 2022 at 13:28

    This was confidential...members only...not you Dame

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    1. Clear The Swamp26 January 2022 at 06:17

      Quirk gone. Get rid of pointless Cllr Campbell too

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    2. Anonymous26 January 2022 at 15:31

      If it was confidential one would ask why it is on the RBKC site published by RBKC in their news section for the public to see and read

      https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/newsroom/barry-quirk-step-down-chief-executive

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  2. Anonymous25 January 2022 at 14:22

    'I remain in awe of the dignity, humanity and positivity of the bereaved, survivors and residents affected by this tragedy. There is so much more we need to do to support each of them along their personal routes to recovery' Pass The Sickbag, Dame

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    1. Anonymous26 January 2022 at 06:30

      I am waiting eagerly for a response from the Justice For Grenfell Action Group......

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  3. Anonymous25 January 2022 at 14:22

    PAYOFF?

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    1. SadBadger27 January 2022 at 17:54

      No, I do not think off. He is going of his own free will...Would you not do too, if you just could not fit in the clique? Quirk is hardly of the breeding and class to be invited to candlelight suppers on the Embankment. South of the river is more like his stomping ground; much nicer than the Core restaurant...

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  4. Obsequious25 January 2022 at 14:34

    Has Quirk taken leave of his senses. Dizzy Lizzie and the "clarity of her purposeful leadership." PATHETIC.

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    1. Never mind the clarity feel the opacity.25 January 2022 at 15:32

      It's a good job that he is going if he thinks that Liz, the Diz, Campbell has provided "purposeful leadership." Clarity? Clear as mud.

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    2. Anonymous25 January 2022 at 15:55

      I remember that Campbell woman when she was on the TMO. Rudderless. A spare part.

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    3. Kensington Tory26 January 2022 at 06:36

      Quirk has used "strategy by opinion poll" to lead dim Lizzie down the road of populist local Government. And dizzie's two headlights (the amazingly dim Faulks and Weale) have collectively enabled a failure of Public Administration in Kensington and Chelsea.

      Hopefully Quirk's departure is the start of a clean up in Hornton Street. Cllr Campbell needs to be dispatched urgently

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    4. Campbell looking down on Council tenants.26 January 2022 at 15:40

      I remember Elizabeth Campbell sitting on the stage at a General Meeting of the TMO in 2008 looking in askance at the Council tenants who "revolted" against the corrupt, malevolent and incompetent TMO of which she was a Company Director.

      She gave the impression that Council tenants were as nasty as something she had scraped off her shoe

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    5. Anonymous28 January 2022 at 08:05

      Now be fair. Emma Dent Coad sat on that same platform looking down on us.

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  5. Observer26 January 2022 at 06:14

    This is the best possible news for the RBKC Conservative Party. Barry Quirk has initiated a fundamental shift to Socialist principles, purposes and practices in the Town Hall since his arrival as "Acting CEO" to replace his predecessor, who was the Grenfell fall guy for the inept and hopeless Cabinet (which included Campbell and Weale).

    Carpet bagger Cllr Campbell, who rushed back to London from her America Cup sabbatical in the USA in order to claim the failed Leadership of disgraced Cllr Paget-Brown, gave the pinkie from Lewisham a free reign to implement his nonsense.

    Conservative Councillors should implement a clean sweep and boot out dizzy as well. High time to get Hornton Street back on track.

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    1. SadBadger27 January 2022 at 00:25

      and let Dr Quirk to take time and produce an update to his "imagining" government book. That's what he has been doing all along - imaging that he is somebody much grander than he actually is...apparently, we hear, far too grand and pretentious to even answer his emails.

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  6. Fly On The Wall26 January 2022 at 06:16

    A scoop. By the Dame.

    Long live the Dame

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  7. Whip It Out26 January 2022 at 06:20

    Local Elections are coming in May. RBKC needs a refresh. Conservative Councillors need to dump dizzy.

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  8. Anonymous26 January 2022 at 08:47

    'The Office Of The Chief Executive'
    Pompous, overpaid prick

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    1. Anonymous26 January 2022 at 10:01

      What happened to the Town Clerk?

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  9. SadBadger26 January 2022 at 11:06

    WOW. Have been away for a while. But encouraged by this great news to comment. This ghastly, pompous, egoist, incompetent administrator should thank Mrs May for the gig and return to awful Lewisham. He would have never been elected by the standing Council.
    I and my beloved will get a bottle of fizzy to celebrate.
    As far as our dearest Dame is concerned, she must be truly over the Moon cheers my dear readers

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    1. Anonymous26 January 2022 at 11:34

      Welcome back Sad Badger...how is Holland Park

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