English Heritage consulting over changes to education team
Consultation with staff ends later this month
English Heritage is consulting on changes to its education department, following a decision to split the organisation in two.
From March 2015 a new self-financing charity retaining the English Heritage name will be set up to look after the National Heritage Collection. Planning and heritage protection responsibilities will be run by a separate body, provisionally called the National Heritage Protection Service (NHPS).
The organisation is now looking at how its education team might change in response to new structure.
It is in consultation with staff on two proposals, including having an education team within English Heritage to promote free educational visits. Two new education resource developer roles will be created to produce online learning resources.
The second proposal is for an education team created within the NHPS to deliver the £2.7m Department for Education funded Heritage Schools Programme until it ends in 2015.
After that time, the team would “work to inspire more people to enjoy and understand their local heritage through partnership projects with other heritage and education institutions”, according to a press statement.
There are 14.5 full-time equivalent staff currently employed in education at English Heritage. The proposal is to have 17 roles in education, with 15 of those in the new charity.
But it is not clear what these roles will be. Museums Journal understands that several existing education roles may be deleted, but English Heritage was unable to confirm this.
A spokesman said that no one has been put on notice of redundancy. He added: “The proposal would create new roles and new responsibilities to reflect the new structure. The proposal would not see a reduction in the resources allocated to education."
English Heritage's policy is to make all new roles available to any staff whose posts are at risk of redundancy before being advertised more widely.
The consultation is due to end later this month.
In 2010, following a 32% cut to its government funding, English Heritage announced it was closing its entire outreach department. It currently receives £101.4m in public funding.
From March 2015 a new self-financing charity retaining the English Heritage name will be set up to look after the National Heritage Collection. Planning and heritage protection responsibilities will be run by a separate body, provisionally called the National Heritage Protection Service (NHPS).
The organisation is now looking at how its education team might change in response to new structure.
It is in consultation with staff on two proposals, including having an education team within English Heritage to promote free educational visits. Two new education resource developer roles will be created to produce online learning resources.
The second proposal is for an education team created within the NHPS to deliver the £2.7m Department for Education funded Heritage Schools Programme until it ends in 2015.
After that time, the team would “work to inspire more people to enjoy and understand their local heritage through partnership projects with other heritage and education institutions”, according to a press statement.
There are 14.5 full-time equivalent staff currently employed in education at English Heritage. The proposal is to have 17 roles in education, with 15 of those in the new charity.
But it is not clear what these roles will be. Museums Journal understands that several existing education roles may be deleted, but English Heritage was unable to confirm this.
A spokesman said that no one has been put on notice of redundancy. He added: “The proposal would create new roles and new responsibilities to reflect the new structure. The proposal would not see a reduction in the resources allocated to education."
English Heritage's policy is to make all new roles available to any staff whose posts are at risk of redundancy before being advertised more widely.
The consultation is due to end later this month.
In 2010, following a 32% cut to its government funding, English Heritage announced it was closing its entire outreach department. It currently receives £101.4m in public funding.