Six posts have been lost at Stoke-on-Trent museum service and £52,000 cut from its budget as a result of a council restructure.
Under the new structure, each of the service's four museums - the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Ford Green Hall, Gladstone Pottery Museum and Etruria Industrial Museum - will have a dedicated manager reporting to the head of service, and functions such as education, programming and administration will run across the sites.
Ian Van Arkadie, the acting head of service, said: "I don't intend to come out with all usual cliches about it being leaner and fitter, but I am confident that the service is more targeted and able to make better use of the vast staff knowledge and expertise at its disposal."
The restructure is part of a council-wide reorganisation driven by a budget deficit.
There had been suggestions that charges should be introduced for the Potteries Museum, but Van Arkadie said no decision had been made on this.
He added that he was happy that the museum service had been moved to the Adult Social Care and Health directorate at the council and said that staff morale was high.
The city is a lead partner in the West Midlands Renaissance hub and has received more than £2.5m in funding from the scheme so far, which has helped to fund 19 full- and part-time posts.
There had been fears that some of the Renaissance money was being used to cover up the council cuts but Van Arkadie said that the Renaissance money had only been used for additional services. "We have never used Renaissance money to prop up core services."
Under the new structure, each of the service's four museums - the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Ford Green Hall, Gladstone Pottery Museum and Etruria Industrial Museum - will have a dedicated manager reporting to the head of service, and functions such as education, programming and administration will run across the sites.
Ian Van Arkadie, the acting head of service, said: "I don't intend to come out with all usual cliches about it being leaner and fitter, but I am confident that the service is more targeted and able to make better use of the vast staff knowledge and expertise at its disposal."
The restructure is part of a council-wide reorganisation driven by a budget deficit.
There had been suggestions that charges should be introduced for the Potteries Museum, but Van Arkadie said no decision had been made on this.
He added that he was happy that the museum service had been moved to the Adult Social Care and Health directorate at the council and said that staff morale was high.
The city is a lead partner in the West Midlands Renaissance hub and has received more than £2.5m in funding from the scheme so far, which has helped to fund 19 full- and part-time posts.
There had been fears that some of the Renaissance money was being used to cover up the council cuts but Van Arkadie said that the Renaissance money had only been used for additional services. "We have never used Renaissance money to prop up core services."
