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Sir Peter James Housden, KCB (born 1950) is a public servant who served as Permanent Secretary of the Scottish Government from June 2010 to June 2015. () He was previously Permanent Secretary of the Department for Communities and Local Government. He was educated at Grove Comprehensive School, Market Drayton, Shropshire and at the University of Essex where he took a First in Sociology. After graduating in 1973, Peter Housden began his career as a comprehensive school teacher in Shropshire and worked as an education officer in three county LEAs before being appointed as Director of Education in Nottinghamshire in 1991. In 1994, Peter was appointed as Chief Executive and in his seven years in that post managed Nottinghamshire County Council through Local Government Review and a wide-ranging programme of modernisation. In September 2000 he was seconded to the Audit Commission for six months to lead their work on the NHS National Plan. Housden joined the Department for Education and Skills in November 2001 as Director General for Schools. He had overall responsibility for all the Department's work in schools and in early years, and for current priorities on primary standards and secondary reform. He held this role until his appointment as Permanent Secretary of ODPM in 2005. () Peter Housden is a Trustee of the RNLI. His publications include 'The Passing of a Country Grammar School' (APS, 2015), 'Local Statesman' (Local Government Centre, Warwick University, 2000), and 'Bucking the Market: LEAs and Special Needs' (NASEN, 1993). Housden was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2010 Birthday Honours. In his role as Scotland's Permanent Secretary, Sir Peter was the principal policy adviser to the First Minister and the Cabinet and led significant work on the integration of public services and new approaches to leadership in public services workforces. He was a member of the UK Civil Service Board and its Senior Leadership Committee. As Permanent Secretary in Scotland, his impartiality over Scottish Independence was called into question but was consistently defended by the leaders of the UK Civil Service. 〔Glasgow Herald 7 October 2011〕 ==Footnotes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Housden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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